“If you stop testing (for COVID-19) it all goes away and people just have colds like before.”
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Home Kits Are NOT Designed To Test Food Or Beverages
Did an orange and a lemon test positive for COVID-19? Does using a test improperly, with fruit juice rather than a nasal swab, show that home tests are unreliable and will return false positives for anything? No, that's not true: The Food
Logically→ The creator of PCR tests said it gives false positives.
The biologist Kary Mullis referred to HIV while talking about false results by PCR tests, not COVID-19.
Snopes→ 4 Tips To Help You Avoid Fake COVID-19 Tests
Whether getting your personal info or money, scammers nationwide are attempting to profit from the omicron era.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, this video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t filmed ‘days before’ her positive COVID-19 test
Video shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pouring shots for a group of people “days before testing positive” for COVID-19.
Snopes→ White House Soft-Launches COVID-19 Test Request Website
The website will officially launch mid-morning Wednesday.
Full Fact→ Lemonade and Fanta don’t test positive for Covid-19
A Facebook post with four thousand shares shows a picture of eight lateral flow tests. Each has been labelled, suggesting they have been tested with different things including different soft drinks, water, and one which was tested with a “real sw
Full Fact→ The CDC has not ‘dropped’ all PCR tests
It has been claimed on social media that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in America has stopped using RT-PCR tests as they cannot differentiate between Covid-19 and the flu. This is not true. These claims appear to originate from a
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on At-Home Rapid Tests
The demand for at-home, rapid COVID-19 tests — sparked by the fast-spreading omicron variant in December — has continued in 2022. With that demand have come questions about the tests’ efficacy, how to use them and where to get them. W
PolitiFact→ What patients can learn with confidence from 1 rapid test (hint: very little)
A single negative result from an at-home rapid test, which takes about 15 minutes, is no guarantee that a person is not ill or carrying the virus.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Evidence scant that Joe Biden was arrested protesting for civil rights
As a youth, “I got arrested” protesting for civil rights.
PolitiFact→ What patients can learn with confidence from 1 rapid test (hint: very little)
A single negative result from an at-home rapid test, which takes about 15 minutes, is no guarantee that a person is not ill or carrying the virus.
Full Fact→ UK is fastest growing G7 economy by one measure, and fifth by another
“We now have [...] the fastest growing economy in the G7” Boris Johnson, 12 January 2022. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson claimed the UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7, a group of advanced world economies incl
Full Fact→ Soft drinks shouldn’t be ‘tested’ with lateral flow tests and asymptomatic transmission is not ‘quackery’
A post on Facebook shared over 1,000 times makes a number of false claims about testing for Covid-19 and transmission from people who don’t have symptoms. It also includes an image of seemingly positive lateral flow test results achieved using co
Logically→ Nasal swab tests to detect COVD-19 can cause severe damage to the blood-brain barrier.
Several layers of tissues separate the brain and nasopharynx that cannot be accessed using swabs. Hence, swab tests cannot damage blood-brain wall.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tiny Amount of Sodium Azide In Covid-19 Test Liquid NOT Able To Poison People — It Doesn’t Touch Patient
Is a lethal drug included in over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits? Yes, but that is misleading. In the Abbott Laboratories home kit, the drug sodium azide is in the liquid in a dropper bottle, with the liquid placed on the paper test card
Snopes→ Home COVID Tests to Be Covered by Insurers Starting Saturday
Private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans.
Logically→ This is Harshitha creating this claim for testing purpose.
Harshitha here for testing
Logically→ PCR tests cannot detect COVID-19 infections.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests are an accurate and reliable method of diagnosing COVID-19.
Logically→ PCR tests cannot detect COVID-19 infections.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests are an accurate and reliable method of diagnosing COVID-19.
Full Fact→ Control swabs aren’t meant to be used for patient testing
An Instagram post shares an image of what appears to be two SARS-CoV-2 antigen (lateral flow) tests produced by ACON Laboratories. One of the tests is labelled as a “positive control swab”, and another is labelled as a “negative contr
Health Feedback→ Testing in general reveals infections, it doesn’t create them; COVID-19 isn’t the same as the common cold
REVIEW A meme featuring Glinda the Good Witch from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, captioned with the words “If you stop testing it all goes away and people just have colds like before”, began circulating in late December 2021 on Facebook, Insta
Full Fact→ Are lateral flow test results included in headline Covid-19 case figures?
The government has announced that asymptomatic people who test positive for Covid-19 on a lateral flow device (LFD) test will no longer need to have a confirmatory PCR test. It said that this is a “temporary measure” while rates of Co
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Pfizer did not report $37 billion in profit for its latest quarter
Pfizer made $37 billion in profit in its last quarter.
Logically→ WHO has recommended the use of a COVID-19 test kit manufactured by just one company in the world.
The World Health Organization has approved different COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test kits manufactured by various companies.
Logically→ Rapid home tests give COVID-19 positive results for tap water samples.
Rapid home tests for COVID-19 are intended to be done using samples from nasal swabs. Testing tap water samples might return false-positive results.
Full Fact→ Did Chris Whitty say you should keep testing after day 10 of isolation?
Following a 4 January Covid-19 press conference, comments made by Professor Sir Chris Whitty have been highlighted in The Guardian and posts on Twitter as a potential source of confusion over whether someone can end their 10 day period of self-isolatio
Logically→ Vaccinated researchers in Antarctica tested positive for COVID-19.
Two-thirds of the 25 vaccinated workers at the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Polar Station in Antarctica tested positive on December 14,2021.
Full Fact→ Tap water can’t test positive for Covid-19
A number of posts on Facebook show people putting tap water on lateral flow tests, either to claim that Covid-19 could be present in the water supply or to suggest the tests don’t work. Some of the posts are screenshots of a tweet posted by music
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – The CDC didn’t say its COVID-19 tests can’t differentiate between the virus and the flu
The CDC finally admits its COVID-19 test can’t tell the difference between the virus and the flu
Snopes→ Pentagon Chief Austin Says He Has Tested Positive for COVID
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home.
The Dispatch→ Did the CDC Withdraw a COVID Test Because It Failed?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BinaxNOW COVID Home Test Kit Is NOT For Use With Water
Did a woman find that there was evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in tap water because she tested the water with a COVID-19 home test kit? No, that's not true: The reading at the end of the video shows an invalid test result, not a positive COVID re
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Admit That COVID Tests Are Invalid
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admit that COVID-19 tests are invalid? No, that's not true: The claim relies on a lab alert issued on the CDC's decision to retire the use of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nC
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Testing Does NOT Instantly Detect Specific Variant — Further Analysis Is Needed
When a new variant is found to be spreading, does the old variant instantly disappear? Do people test positive for specific COVID-19 variants if they take a rapid antigen or a PCR test? No, neither of these assumptions are true: The initi
Snopes→ Omicron is Latest Blow to Pandemic-Weary Front-Line Workers
Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick.
Logically→ Applying fruit juice to a lateral flow test can generate a positive result. This shows that lateral flow tests are unreliable.
Applying fruit juice to a lateral flow test breaks the lateral flow test. Lateral flow tests play an important role in the fight against COVID-19.
PolitiFact→ Club for Growth – Did Pat McCrory support Black Lives Matter protests and condemn ‘Trump supporters?’
Audio clips from ad show Pat McCrory supported Black Lives Matter protesters while condemning ‘Trump supporters’
FactCheck.org→ ‘Santa’ Detained at Unregistered Protest, Not ‘Arrested’ for Mask Violation
Quick Take An increase in pandemic restrictions in Germany sparked a protest at a market, where a man dressed as Santa Claus was briefly detained. Online posts falsely claimed he was arrested for not wearing a mask. But police said he was detained fo
Snopes→ Biden to Pledge 500M Free COVID-19 Tests to Counter Omicron
Biden is announcing major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the arrival of the fast-spreading omicron variant, whose properties are yet not fully understood by scientists.