Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse.

@elonmusk ^ | Nov 13 2020 | Elon Musk @elonmusk

[rintintin]

Elon Musk @elonmusk Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD. 9:47 PM · Nov 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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Infectious Disease Ping - covid-19 testing reliability ?

Source :Elon Musk twitter account :
" Elon Musk @elonmusk Something extremely bogus is going on.
Was tested for covid four times today.
Two tests came back negative, two came back positive.
Same machine, same test, same nurse.
Rapid antigen test from BD.
9:47 PM · Nov 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

MSNBC is opposed to Musk reporting these test results.
Anyone surprised ?

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Elon Musk Tests Positive, Negative, Positive, Negative All in One Day,
But MSNBC Producer Doesn't Think He Should Have Told You

http://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/11/13/279551-n279551

[jurroppi1]

I had a PCR test last Saturday, I had to call and get my results and was told that it was invalid and I have to get tested again. By the time I get my next PCR test (tomorrow) I will be past the 10 day quarantine if I am or was positive. If it comes back negative I’ll be really surprised since my wife and daughter both tested positive and I have the same symptoms as they do. Either way, if it comes back negative I’ll be at the 14 day isolation period end by the time I get results most likely also.

I’m still boned though, because I have to be completely symptom free for 72 hours without meds before I can return to work and I have had chronic congestion, runny nose and an occasional cough since last December when I got really sick for about a month (pretty sure I had the original strain of the china virus then).

[greeneyes]

Hubby has to have biopsy. They won’t/can’t do one without his taking a CV test first. When they told me that, I asked them what good does it do to test, when the test is unreliable. SMH.

[2big2fail]

My God. Can you believe a 40% false positive rate? If my math is correct, a test with a 50% false positive rate would be worthless. And this is closing in on that! Unbelieveable. How can we be so stupid? And these test resuts in aggregate are used to lock down people, keep people from church, keep people apart, restrict us from attending funerals, close down businesses that are non-essential(?), and so many other abuses. Don’t understand how this is even allowed under the First Amendment.

[metmom]

Not me.

Can’t control the narrative when the curtain has been pulled open.

[metmom]

What did they say?

[greeneyes]

Just repeated that it was required.

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greeneyes :" Just repeated that it was required."

You failed to complete the hospital's complete statement.
It should have read : Just repeated that it was required by the State, and implicitly, by hospital administration who get their licensing to operate from the State.
This OP clearly points out that the testing is unreliable, and proves it.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

My last sentence is not complete.
It should read : This OP clearly points out that the testing is unreliable, and proves it by the scientific method.
The scientific method requires that any theory can be provable buy virtue of replicating the test, and getting the same response.
In Elon Musk's tests, the tests were inconclusive, and clearly demonstrated a failure of the testing system.
Therefore, the testing procedure used is not scientific.

[Grampa Dave]

“Hubby has to have biopsy. They won’t/can’t do one without his taking a CV test first. When they told me that, I asked them what good does it do to test, when the test is unreliable. SMH.”

Find out what CV tests are considered to be valid by the hospital doing the biopsy.

The so called free test results for our county (nicked named the Tijuana Express Tests) are not accepted by the three hospitals in our county and the hospitals in the other 3 counties. They only accept the tests done by their own hospital lab.

[Hildy]

False negative

[petitfour]

My daughter and granddaughter have pneumonia. They were presumed to be covid positive and given cough meds and albuterol and sent home. Two days later, they are told it’s not Covid. It’s the flu. Yes, they had flu shots at least a month ago.

[greeneyes]

They only accept the tests done by their own hospital lab.
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Yes, the hospital associated with this doc has an affiliate in a nearby town, and we have to go there. The Physicians assistant and test scheduler, could not tell me which test it was. So we have to go there on a designated day-but any time between 8 and noon.