Premier Kenney Doesn't Care About False Positives
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Summary
PCR is the standard test for COVID-19 in Canada and Alberta, and around the world. It's true that based on how many cycles the PCR test does on a sample, that it can generate, in many cases, a false positive. But in a sense, who really cares about the false positives?
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I've read about the maker of the PCR test has stated it's about 50% wrong
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and wasn't designed for what we're using it for. Is that true?
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And then this, I actually asked for this to come up because I know there's a lot of folks,
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often when I check out the Facebook comments, there's a lot of this stuff about PCR.
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So, PCR is the standard test for COVID-19 in Canada and Alberta and around the world.
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It's true that based on how many cycles the PCR test does on a sample,
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that it can generate, in many cases does generate, a false positive defined as COVID skeptics
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who are claiming that all of the restrictive policies are being wrongly informed
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by exaggerated COVID case counts because of false positives through PCR testing.
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So, in a sense, I mean, who really cares about the false positives?
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so, in a sense, Drake has been followed by later.