The PCR test can’t tell the difference between the common cold, influenza, what they call COVID or hemorrhoids, according to the CDC
This is not a true statement. Please actually read the cdc statement
They have made the test a part of a viral panel instead of requiring multiple specimen gatherings.
I agree with gas_dr.
eyeamok you are spreading false information.
The covid tests until the brand new one was never designed to test for flu. It ONLY tested for covid.
If you had the flu and not covid, you would get a negative.
If you had covid and not the flu, you would get a positive.
If you were lucky enough to have both, you would get a positive.
The new covid test that they just read out is actually a Covid & Flu test in one. It will tell you whether you have neither, one or the other, or both.
Previously, to get that much information they would have to give you both a covid test and a flu test.
> The PCR test can’t tell the difference between the common cold, influenza, what they call COVID or hemorrhoids, according to the CDC
Do you have a source for your claim? I am almost certain the CDC never made such a statement. I’m going to make a wild guess that your assertion based on a very cursory reading of a purposefully misleading article published by Gateway Pundit or some similar clickbait news source.
eyeamok wrote: “The PCR test can’t tell the difference between the common cold, influenza, what they call COVID or hemorrhoids, according to the CDC”
This is incorrect. The CDC never said that. The CDC replaced the PCR test in July with a more efficient test. The old test could check for flu or for covid but not both at the same time.
“The recall was not because the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was inaccurate. It was because they have a different test that can check for both influenza and COVID-19 simultaneously – which is known as the “multiplexed method.””
I don’t know why people keep posting this false information when a simple google search gives the correct information.