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false positives and crappy pcr tests, never meant as diagnostics


To their credit, false positives are the designed nature of PCR.


It's referenced as a diagnostic test: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/covid-19-diagnos...

What leads you to believe it is not?

As for false positives, a cluster like that seems unlikely give they had a less effective vaccine overall and in terms of protection from variants. If they are false positives, I'd bet on sample or protocol contamination, not a random clustering.




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