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  1. fullfact.org

    An alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in America announcing that it will withdraw the request for emergency authorisation of a PCR test has been widely shared on social media in the UK, and claimed to be evidence that the tests have "failed their full review", and that PCR tests are "meaningless", "fraudulent", "not fit for purpose", or unable to ...
  2. fullfact.org

    PCR tests have not been revoked in the US The post on Facebook was published at around the same time we saw a number of posts falsely claiming that an announcement made by the CDC meant that PCR tests were "fraudulent" and "not fit for purpose".. As we wrote at the time, the CDC announced that it was withdrawing the request for emergency authorisation of one type of PCR test.
  3. politifact.com

    On July 21, the CDC issued a lab alert saying that it was withdrawing its request to the FDA for emergency use authorization of "the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR ...
  4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    The main thrusts of these assertions allege that PCR testing is not fit for purpose, is unsuitable for large scale diagnostic testing and that there is a lack of thorough quality control. Together, these arguments are used to allege that the tests are unreliable, lack internal consistency and that they were "never meant to be used on 'well ...
  5. The CDC has advised for the use of tests that test for both the influenza and COVID-19 simultaneously to save time and resources. PCR tests are specifically designed to only detect SARS-CoV-2 ...
  6. FOI release Freedom of Information request on confirmation of why the PCR test was granted authorization for use by your department when it is not fit for purpose (FOI 21/1171)
  7. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Covid-19: Test and trace system is not fit for purpose, says Independent SAGE. Covid-19: Test and trace system is not fit for purpose, says Independent SAGE BMJ. 2020 Jun 9;369:m2302. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2302. Author Jacqui Wise 1 Affiliation 1 London. PMID: 32518067 ...
  8. fullfact.org

    A number of posts on Facebook have made claims about the man who invented PCR tests, Dr Kary B. Mullis, and what that means about Covid-19 testing. One such post claims: "[Dr Mullis] said that this PCR test was not made to detect any type of infectious disease. It's designed to pick up a signature of DNA and RNA of the person being tested."

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