Covid tests could be picking up DEAD virus cells from weeks' old infections and 'false positives' could be exaggerating scale of pandemic, claims study

Well, it's something I guess! Some kind of admission in MSM is never what it appears to be. But on face value, this seems a reasonable admission. In truth ... there has been so much on social media exposing this falsehood.....

[Daily Mail]: Coronavirus tests could be picking up dead virus cells from weeks' old infections, study finds, meaning 'false positives' could lead to an exaggeration of the current scale of the pandemic.

Despite coronavirus only being infectious for around a week, the tests used to diagnose the disease could still show a positive reading for weeks after the end of a patient's illness.

Experts don't know how to produce a reliable test without potentially missing cases but Professor Carl Heneghan, one of the study's author's, suggested a cut off point so low amounts of virus do not give a positive result.

He told the BBC coronavirus 'infectivity appears to decline after about a week' and added false positives could be the reason case numbers are on the rise while hospital admissions fall....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...