Coronavirus tests too sensitive, Oxford University academic warns. People get positive results even when they had the virus 70 days ago skewing real picture of how many people are contagious

The Telegraph via MSN ^ | 09/0/2020 | Phoebe Southworth

[Cobra64]

Every day we see more conjured up BS testing “results.” Anyone who believes any of this BS is a flaming moron.

[I want the USA back]

That way they get the “case” numbers up, and the “Covid deaths” up as well, and scare us all to death.

[caww]

[bert]

For the sight challenged

[caww]

what are all the pets going to do when their owners go back to work and school! They’ve been accustomed to having people around for months.....then nothing????

[caww]

what are all the pets going to do when their owners go back to work and school! They’ve been accustomed to having people around for months.....then nothing????

[2aProtectsTheRest]

This entire post is nothing but completely false misinformation. The effect of spreading this misinformation is to SCARE people by making them think we don't know what's going on. We do, and the situation is being handled by serious people like President Trump. Do NOT let this kind of fearmongering nonsense scare you!

"They have not isolated a “Covid 19” virus."

FALSE! The SARS-CoV-2 virus was isolated in December and its complete genome was released to the world on January 10th 2020. Source. It has been directly imaged by scanning and transmission electron microscopes. Here are some images of it:

Those two images were taken by NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana.

"The PCR test identifies some proteins found in corona viruses (and other inert materials)."

FALSE! The PCR tests used for COVID-19 specifically identify sequences only found in SARS-CoV-2 and do NOT trigger off other coronaviruses, nor "other inert materials" (whatever that even means). Source (look to page 11 for specificity of the test and for evidence that it does NOT trigger from other viruses).

Misinformation is being spread to sew FEAR and MISTRUST in President Trump's efforts to control the spread and eliminate the threat posed by COVID-19. Whenever someone makes extraordinary claims like these, CHECK them against REAL sources of information. Do NOT trust the media, and do NOT trust the tinfoil hat crowd! They are TERRIBLE sources of misinformation and FEARmongering!

[momincombatboots]

I had to make up infectable. Im a lab tech born in GA. So i can make up words that more clearly convey the truth in the tests and testing data.

[Just mythoughts]

I have been told people making an appointment for testing, never took the test received mail they tested positive. Something fishy going on in testing.

[MIDad23]

The tested positive for a goat and a piece of fruit. 38-80% false positives. This “virus” burned out in May.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Nonsense. If it burned out in May, why have weekly excess deaths been through the roof every single week since March? Are you going to claim it's mass suicides like somebody else did? (seriously, somebody actually tried to explain the numbers away with that ridiculous claim) 200,000 people jumped off a roof and nobody noticed? That was funny the first time somebody claimed it. Less amusing now.

Excess Mortality in The United States