The articles don’t say the RT-PCR test gives you a false positive. The articles (the townhall article is just a recap of the NYT article) simply point out that the RT-PCR test will give a positive result when there aren’t a lot of virions present in the person’s system or when the genetic material isn’t from active virions.
There was no claim made that the testing was incorrect. The tests did precisely what they were designed to do: identify whether there was SARS-CoV-2 genetic material present at the collection site. It does that.
The issue is that the RT-PCR test does not provide a metric for the amount of active virus present within the body. Nobody even claimed it would do so. It’s a limitation of the test. If you want a test that both accurately determines the presence and the amount of active SARS-CoV-2 virions within a person’s body, please design one. I’m sure the medical community would love to have one. Nobody in the world has been able to do so yet. You’ll be a billionaire.
The issue if that the PCR test as currently run does not tell if a positive result is dead, alive, or even the Wuhan flu.
With the cuttent CT number a papay, a goat,and coke have elicited a positive test.
The issue also is that the PTB have designated a positive test as a CASE. In medicine traditionally a CASE is a sick person and that is how the PTB refer to a CASE. The number of cases has been used to create a panic / pandemic / casedemic.
If you want a better way do it the old fashioned way.