UMass Chan Medical School researchers have documented a phenomenon that had confounded clinicians: Some people persistently test positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on rapid home antigen tests despite obtaining concurrent negative PCR tests. Ad Evidence of persistentfalse positive...
This pagecontains example after example, from all around the world, of COVID-19 false-positives caused by contamination. ASpanish casecited on that page is instructive: It involved 27 false positives that would've gone unnoticed, if not for the fact one positive belonged to a doctor who orde...
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The Culver City School District has paused COVID testing after they say students got false-positive results from the state's troubled COVID-19 testing lab. Now, the El Dorado Union School District wants to know if false positives are to blame for the hundreds of quara...
False positives also trigger further public health costs since staff must identify the infected person’s close contacts and make sure they are not infected. In the case of Nunavut, more than a dozen people were tested for COVID-19 but none of those tests came back positive. False...
Australian medical tech manufacturer Ellume said it had recalled almost 200,000 at-home COVID-19 tests in the United States over an increased chance of false positives. Ellume's rapid at-home coronavirustestlast year became the first to receive emergency use authorisation in the US. ...
False-positive fourth-generation HIV screening tests are rare and are usually associated with various infections and autoimmune diseases. SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination were recently linked with false-positive HIV screening test results. However, little is known about false-positives in people who...
There is an idea circulating that many of the positive PCR tests results for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Switzerland are false, results which are known as false positives. However, according to experts interviewed by RTS, PCR test false positives are rare.
Production for the Apple TV drama "The Morning Show" endured a COVID-19 scare that could have stopped production, after a member of the crew allegedly received a false-positive result for a coronavirus test.
smaller studies.3The cluster of false-positive results from 1 batch was likely the result of manufacturing issues rather than implementation. These results inform the discussion of whether rapid antigen tests will result in too many false-positives that could overwhelm PCR testing capacity in other ...
“There are a lot of [coronavirus] false positives messing up the numbers,”Musk claimed. “Even tests with 5% false positive rate (in *field*, not lab) would show up as ~17 million fake [coronavirus] cases even if there were actually none.” ...