The UKHSA has announced that confirmatory PCR tests will no longer be available for those who test positive on an LFT test without symptoms, raising fears of staff shortages being exacerbated by false positives.
The U.S. CDC has finally acknowledged that PCR tests produce false positives following infection and dropped the requirement to be tested at the end of self-isolation.
Pupils, inspired by videos on TikTok and Instagram, are using fruit juice and fizzy drinks to get false positive Covid test results and skip school.
New research in the Journal of Infection looks at the PCR test results from a large lab in Munster and finds that more than half do not indicate infectious virus, casting doubt on the test's "gold standard" status.
Dr Anthony Fryer, Prof of Clinical Biochemistry at Keele, asks why the Govt isn't more transparent about the data it's basing its decisions on and why it has repeatedly failed to acknowledge the impact of false positives.
A reader of Lockdown Sceptics decided to test some familiar household objects for COVID-19. You'll be amazed by what came up positive.
The "vast majority" of positives test results in schools are likely to be false, according to Jon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics and head of the Test Evaluation Research Group at the University of Birmingham.
Tonight's episode of Panorama has "broken" a story that was first revealed on Lockdown Sceptics four months ago: cross-contamination at Lighthouse Labs has led to an unknown number of false positives in PCR test results.
With mass testing of schoolchildren happening and those testing positive and their contacts required to self-isolate, it is not surprising that more than 200,000 children were at home isolating at the end of last week.
Mike Hearn, author of the most read piece on Lockdown Sceptics, takes apart a new paper in the Lancet purporting to show that 20% of people who recover from COVID-19 are vulnerable to reinfection.
