British Scientist Says Flawed PCR Tests Mistook Common Colds, Flu For COVID-19

A British scientist has made a sensational claim that flawed PCR tests mistook common colds and flu for COVID-19.

According to a British scientist, faulty PCR tests that confused COVID-19 for the common cold and the flu should have been abandoned, reports WION.

According to professor Francois Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College London, "many people may not have been infectious, despite getting a positive test."

According to UK government guidance, lateral flow devices (LFDs) are less reliable than PCR tests, and individuals can stop self-isolating if a positive LFD outcome is followed by a negative PCR test result.

The decision, according to Professor Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham who assisted in the establishment of the Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes, meant that PCR testing procedures were "largely standardised."

"There appears to have been little or no oversight of these new labs, and with different P...

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