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Flaw in Manufacturer's Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives
2020-07-22
[Gateway Pundit] A flaw in a manufacturer’s Coronavirus testing system used by labs across the US are causing false positives.

Department of Public Health scientists in Connecticut discovered the flaw in the testing system manufactured by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

According to DPH scientists, the affected patients were tested between July 15 to July 17 and out of a total of 144 ’positive’ tests, 90 were false positives!

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Associated Press reported:

Scientists at Connecticut’s public health laboratory say they’ve discovered a flaw in a manufacturer’s testing system for the coronavirus that’s used by labs around the country. So far, it’s resulted in 90 people — mostly residents of Connecticut nursing homes and assisted living facilities — recently receiving false positive tests.

State public health officials are now reviewing whether nursing home residents who received false positive tests were grouped with other residents with accurate positive tests, given the state’s recommendation to cohort nursing home residents who test positive for COVID-19.

"We don’t know that yet," said Josh Geballe, Gov. Ned Lamont’s chief operating officer, noting that a team from the state’s Department of Public Health has been reaching out to every clinician responsible for those individuals, as well as the facilities where they live, and compiling data on the situation.

Meanwhile, Dr. Deidre S. Gifford, the state’s acting public health commissioner, said her agency is also reaching out to labs throughout the state to see how many of them use the testing platform manufactured by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Posted by:Frank G

#10  ^ Snark O' The Day
Posted by: Frank G   2020-07-22 18:32  

#9  Good thing these tests aren't being used to justify state policy, outlaw certain businesses, and incarcerate people.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-07-22 17:07  

#8  It's easy when you can do maths, something it seems medics have forgotten.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-07-22 08:12  

#7  I wish I had your precognitive powers, BP.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-22 05:05  

#6  "Some" being 80% of the population it seems...

Tragic that this lockdown mistake is being continued.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-07-22 04:42  

#5  ^You know that, I know that (though I'd add "some people are naturally immune"*). But beware the wrath of the "covid skeptics".

*True for every known pathogen - due to the fact that the immune system (sort of) recapitulates Darwinian variation/selection process.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-22 04:18  

#4  grom, the asymptomatic cases are the false positives.
Posted by: daniel    2020-07-22 04:11  

#3  ^That's why sites (e.g. worldometer) distinguish between positive tests and active cases (symptomatic).
Now: "Most estimates have put the number of undetected cases at several multiples of detected cases" (worldometer). Which implies that, by now, most of the population is infected. Which implies - albeit only in Eurocentric terms of conditional probability - that false positives don't matter very much.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-22 03:56  

#2  Jeez, as if the data wasn't garbage enough already.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-07-22 01:11  

#1  given the state’s recommendation to cohort nursing home residents who test positive for COVID-19.

A f*ck in the tests can happen, but what's the rationale for the above?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-22 00:21  

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