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Articles tagged with: PCR
CLAIM REVIEWS
Video shared by Sebastian Gorka Facebook page shows nurse making false and unsubstantiated claims about ivermectin, COVID-19 PCR tests, and COVID-19 vaccine safety
SOURCE: Nicole Whitley, America First With Dr. Sebastian Gorka
Published: 20 Aug 2021

EUA withdrawal for CDC COVID-19 PCR test is due to the development of newer tests that help save time and resources, not because the test is faulty
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Published: 26 Jul 2021

COVID-19 PCR tests are highly sensitive and specific for the virus SARS-CoV-2; the majority of positive results are true positives; there is no evidence that budesonide or HCQ are useful as COVID-19 treatments
SOURCE: Clay Clark, Rob Marsh, Richard Bartlett, Keith Rose, American Media Periscope
Published: 01 Jun 2021

PCR tests on vaccinated and unvaccinated people are evaluated using the same criteria; the CDC didn’t change criteria for detecting infection in vaccinated people, as alleged in OffGuardian article
SOURCE: Kit Knightly, OffGuardian, Zero Hedge, Gateway Pundit
Published: 27 May 2021

Most positive COVID-19 PCR test results are true positives; WHO information notice didn’t change threshold or criteria for a positive COVID-19 test
SOURCE: Joseph Mercola, David Samedi, Zero Hedge, Children’s Health Defense
Published: 25 Jan 2021

Claim that high PCR test sensitivity inflates COVID-19 cases wrongly conflates the issue of contagiousness with the presence of infection
SOURCE: Daniel Payne, Just the News
Published: 12 Nov 2020

A rise in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths starting in September 2020 contradicts the claim by Michael Yeadon that “the pandemic is fundamentally over in the U.K.”
SOURCE: Julia Hartley-Brewer, Michael Yeadon, talkRADIO
Published: 10 Nov 2020

Misinterpreted New York Times report leads to false claim that the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is inflated by up to 90%
SOURCE: Liz Wheeler, Steve Deace, One America News Network, The Blaze
Published: 10 Sep 2020

Human DNA does not produce a positive result on the RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2
SOURCE: Anonymous, Piece of Mindful
Published: 31 Aug 2020

Internet memes based on hearsay claim that hospital laboratories falsify COVID-19 tests to inflate numbers without evidence
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook
Published: 04 Jul 2020
