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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by blywi on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:26PM (#27978812)
This WHO statement has been widely misinterpreted, is is not the case that PCR tests were resulting in inflated numbers of false positives, see Reuters fact check [1] from February 4, 2021, and [2] from April 8, 2021.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-who-instruction... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-who-pcr-idUSL1N2M1...

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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by themark on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:10PM (#27979883)
“The WHO information notice is not a retraction; rather, it is a clarification for laboratory professionals on how to interpret PCR results.”

Why would WHO feel the need to tell people to read the operating manuals closely? I’m sure its not because the accuracy was too high.

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