Communist Quality Control: Beijing Sends 150,000 Wuhan Virus Testing Kits to Prague, 80% Fail

PJ Media ^ | 03/25/2020 | Stephen Green

[SeekAndFind]

The Communist thugs in charge of China have been trying to have it two ways on coronavirus: Playing the aggrieved victim of racism/biological-warfare/whatever, and acting like the international bigshot who, having solved the crisis at home, is now eager to help other nations around the world.

Beijing's antics are making everything worse everywhere, this time in the Czech Republic.

The Czech newspaper Irozhlas (I-Radio) reports that the bigshots in Beijing sent 150,000 coronavirus rapid testing kits to Czechia which return false results up to 80% of the time.

Forgive the rough Google Translate results, but I don't speak Czech:

"We checked them on Saturday at the University Hospital Ostrava, but unfortunately the error rate was quite high, so now we are waiting for the results of further testing across the country, they have never been tested positively because it works with antibodies," said Svrčinová.

She added that the tests showed false positive and false negative results. "We tested those who searched for a sampling site. Fortunately, we were so far-sighted that samples were immediately taken for the classic examination and that just proved the error rate of the tests," said Svrčinová. Even if tests are used in end-of-quarantine patients, hygienists will want to check their reliability first.

Jan Hamacek, the Czech Republic's deputy prime minister and interior minister said, "I don't think it's a scandalous revelation that it's not working," but it's difficult to see how he reached that conclusion, given the huge failure rate and that the bad tests return both false positive and false negatives.

[seowulf]

I had a lib coworker railing about the CDC screwing up their test and how she wasn’t able to get a test, and it’s all Trump’s fault.

I had just read that there was a study out on tests given in Europe and that there were 82% false negative tests before one false positive, test taken at the same time on the same person.

It’s better to get no test at all than get one that gives a false negative and the false confidence that goes with it that you won’t be spreading the virus around when you go out to a restaurant for dinner.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I read an article that says the Chinese are about at the same level we were in the 1970’s when it comes to industrial quality assurance. They shouldn’t be trusted for anything more complex than Happy Meal toys.

[Lurker]

“They shouldn’t be trusted for anything more complex than Happy Meal toys.”

They’d make those out of toxic plastic or radioactive paint or something.

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