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Re:The coronavirus may not have originated in China, says Ox... by aritmo on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:05PM (#23750792)
All these test kits would check for the presence of small fragments of RNA. If you are applying the test on lots of sewage, it is likely to find some weird false positive that is not COVID-19 in the first.

I would find it even more interesting if there were specific agents in sewage, irrelevant from COVID-19, that would cause a false positive.

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Re:The coronavirus may not have originated in China, says Ox... by noobrunner on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:15PM (#23750926)
Do you know what the false positive rates of these tests are ?
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