Dozens, many nursing home residents, receive false-positive COVID-19 results from public lab in Connecticut

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Connecticut health officials issued a warning, saying a state-run laboratory had delivered false-positive COVID-19 test results to dozens of patients, including many nursing home residents.

Health workers dressed in personal protective equipment handle a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing station in Stamford, Connecticut.

Health workers dressed in personal protective equipment handle a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing station in Stamford, Connecticut.She also thanked her team at the state lab for their"quick action" and said adjustments had already been made to ensure the accuracy of future results from the testing platform.

The department said it would still rely on the platform for tests, including those for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Going forward, all positive results will be further analyzed by multiple laboratory scientists, and if indicated, retested using another method, the department said.The news comes as states across the country struggle to keep up with testing demands amid a resurgence of infections.

Over 14.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The United States has become the worst-affected country, with more than 3.7 million diagnosed cases and at least 140,541 deaths.

 

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I’m sure this only happen in Connection 👎🏼 Ridiculous

Make that every state/county and country globally, when are you all going to report its magically disappeared? Because sooner rather than later you all will, but you won't have any followers left to control.

DUH!

Yep, told you this is all a farce... Stay away from those contaminated swabs...

Ridiculous how third world countries can execute testing correctly and the all mighty U.S. gets it wrong time and time again 😞

😂😂😂😂

I’m shocked!

It’s ALL about the money 💴. More tests more money nevermind accuracy or quality

Yeah, I’m sure this only happened in Connecticut

Hahaha and people still trust the numbers lol

So, if it’s a widespread testing platform, how many other false positives are there out there? This is not acceptable. And we want to trust them with a warp speed vaccine. No, damn, thank you.

We know, ABC News. We know.

Face it, we can’t even trust the test results anymore. Believe it or not too many people are trying to make political statements with positive tests the only thing we can truly gauge community spread by his hospitalizations and even that’s somewhat tainted

BeLieVe ScIeNcE

I wonder how many false positive test where there to inflate the numbers just so that president trump would get blamed

Seems to coincide with the CDCs errors elsewhere. What is really going on?

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