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2024-08-20 12:49:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 451430EBA0BA66263844DB5BCD82863FA5C0A1B45D457E590F8CA9B80502BD0D
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This unsourced post factually contain misinformation in strong contradiction with scientific literature. The false positive rate of Covid-19 RT-PCR is evaluated by several studies as low as in between 0.1% to 6.9%, far from those alleged 75-80%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0344033821002405 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v4.full-text https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30294-2/fulltext https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hed.26317 https://meridian.allenpress.com/aplm/article/145/3/259/448510/Experience-With-False-Positive-Test-Results-on-the https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gos-impact-of-false-positives-and-negatives-3-june-2020/impact-of-false-positives-and-false-negatives-in-the-uks-covid-19-rt-pcr-testing-programme-3-june-2020
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