Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
by svara on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:31AM
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The viruses are not similar at all, the symptoms are to some degree.
SARS-CoV-2 is in the same family as SARSv1, MERS, a number of viruses that cause the common cold (229E, OC43, NL63), plus a number of bat viruses. But not influenza!
The test would cause a false positive for the most related ones, specifically SARSv1 and some bat viruses.
SARS-CoV-2 is in the same family as SARSv1, MERS, a number of viruses that cause the common cold (229E, OC43, NL63), plus a number of bat viruses. But not influenza!
The test would cause a false positive for the most related ones, specifically SARSv1 and some bat viruses.