Posted on 04/06/2020 10:29:06 AM PDT by blam
The British government has ordered millions of coronavirus tests made in China that do not work, Public Health England’s Professor John Newton has admitted.
Professor Newton, the government’s new testing chief, said that while some of the Chinese tests could identify immunity in those who had been very sick, all of the tests had failed the minimum thresholds set for the trials. They “are not good enough to be worth rolling out in very large scale”, he said.
“The test developed in China was validated against patients who were severely ill with a very large viral load, generating a large amount of antibodies… whereas we want to use the test in the context of a wider range of levels of infection including people who are quite mildly infected,” Prof Newton said in comments reported by The Times.
“So for our purposes, we need a test that performs better than some of these other tests,” he added.
This is not the first time that China-made tests for the Chinese coronavirus have proven faulty. Late last month, Spain, the country with the second-highest number of fatalities and the highest number of cases in Europe, bought thousands of faulty antibody testing kits from China’s Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. Chinese authorities claimed that Spain had purchased the tests, which were EU-certified, from a supplier that was not recommended by the Chinese state.
Turkey also found some Chinese testing kits to be substandard, with the margin of error too high and giving false-negatives while the Netherlands recalled 600,000 faulty masks made China.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage expressed shock that the UK was buying ventilators from China, with 300 sent to the NHS last week. Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith criticised the business dealing, saying: “China shouldn’t be charging for this stuff.
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Gee and things they make are usually so dependable.
It’s not an important item thank God
Once you take the test, you have to take it again two hours later.
Their should be a world war against these murderous PRCs!!!
The only thing we should ever import from these dinks is fireworks and silk.
And yet the media keeps repeating China’s Covid-19 case numbers…..
Wow. Didn’t see this coming.
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Sort of reminds one of those tin Chinese toys that were prevalent in the 30',40's'. Made in China was a term for junk then.
They don’t test the test.
“the margin of error too high”
And that means people walking around who have it and think they don’t.
Lol
NOTHING made in China works: It is ALL crap.
Let's hope the virus they made is as crappy as most of their other stuff...
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