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Teens use soft drinks to fake positive COVID-19 tests
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:29 am
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:29 am
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Teenagers have figured out how to use soft drinks to fake a positive COVID-19 test, and the authors of a new study warn schools and other groups to be aware. As of July 1, videos uploaded to social media under the search term #fakecovidtest, featuring young people applying various liquids to rapid antigen COVID-19 tests, had been viewed millions of times, according to the British news website inews.co.uk. That report https://bit.ly/3hLMoWT, and others, prompted University of Liverpool researchers to study the effects of applying soft drinks and artificial sweeteners to the test swabs. All four sweeteners tested produced negative results on rapid COVID-19 tests, as did spring water. But 10 of 14 soft drinks produced positive or weakly positive results, with no apparent link between the test results and the soft drinks' ingredients, the researchers reported on Monday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. Since March, UK schools have asked pupils without symptoms to test twice weekly, the authors note. A positive test can result in an entire class having to isolate at home. Based on their findings, they advise, testing "should be performed first thing in the morning, prior to the consumption of any food or drinks, and supervised where feasible."
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Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:32 am to stout
Add them to the list, we're like two weeks tops behind Italy. We need VENTS!!
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:32 am to stout
So people who drink a lot of soft drinks can test positive?
This post was edited on 7/8/21 at 8:39 am
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:34 am to stout
So the chemicals ARE killing us?
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:36 am to WhuckFistle
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So people who drink a lot of soft drinks can tear positive?
Makes you wonder how many false positives there were at the height of it all
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:36 am to stout
Well now I’m wondering if many of the Covid+ were merely Diet Coke drinkers
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:37 am to stout
If you need some free days off from work, now you know how to easily get them
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:38 am to stout
So my takeaway is that soft drinks make people more susceptible to the virus. I wonder if this is exacerbated with the variant strains.
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:41 am to stout
I'm not sure why anyone believes anything that the gov't says about COVID. I just wish I knew what the end game to all of this was.......
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:45 am to stout
Where were these fake medical tests when I was in school?
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:53 am to stout
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Makes you wonder how many false positives there were at the height of it all
The biggest tell all that this was just govt being govt was when they changed the testing metrics the day after the inauguration.
That and the fact that a single person testing positive resulted in multiple cases depending on how many times they got tested.
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:55 am to stout
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Makes you wonder how many false positives there were at the height of it all
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:56 am to stout
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Teens use soft drinks to fake positive COVID-19 tests
Imagine if teens these days applied themselves like this to things of value
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:58 am to stout
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But 10 of 14 soft drinks produced positive or weakly positive results
So how many people out there with false positives think they have immunity but don’t?
Posted on 7/8/21 at 8:59 am to stout
not surprising.
only gullible fricking sheep believe this pandemic is as nearly at lethal and contagious as the media spins it.
only gullible fricking sheep believe this pandemic is as nearly at lethal and contagious as the media spins it.
Posted on 7/8/21 at 9:02 am to stout
Funny how kids can find this out well before actual researchers.
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