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[–] SpottyMatt ago 

As far as can tell, none of those are, nor contain a link to, a study showing that SARS-CoV-2 tests in use in any location were returning positive when SARS-CoV-2 was absent, due to the presence of some other coronaviruses.

Can you help me out and link directly to the study you saw?

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[–] TFS [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It was this link that I gave you:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

He writes:

"Furthermore, studies have shown that the internationally used virus test kits may give a false positive result in some cases. In these cases, the persons may not have contracted the new coronavirus, but presumably one of the many existing human coronaviruses that are part of the annual (and currently ongoing) common cold and flu epidemics."

This is his source:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/

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[–] SpottyMatt ago  (edited ago)

That study is from 2006, and is about the tests used in the 2003 original SARS-CoV virus in by a laboratory in British Colombia, Canada.

While it's about a related virus to be sure, I don't see indications that it investigated the Chinese (or US CDC)-produced tests being used for SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, which were created in late 2019 at the earliest and test for a virus which was unknown in 2006.

That study could be taken to indicate that the current SARS-CoV-2 tests should be more-aggressively scrutinized than normal, especially for false-positives caused by other coronaviruses (and we should be pushing for this and other kinds of validation against the current SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests), but that study

  • Is not about SARS-CoV-2
  • Is not about the current SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests
  • Is from 14 years ago