Sweden uncovers 3,700 false positives from faulty Chinese-made coronavirus test kits Sweden said the PCR kits were from a Chinese company called BGI Genomics The testing kits were used by Swedes between the months of March and August Mostly, ‘people who had mild symptoms or who didn’t feel any symptoms at the time of the … Read more
Facebook has come under fire recently for allowing medical misinformation to run rampant on its platform and a new report finds it may be worse than previously believed. Non-profit group Avaaz found 84 percent of posts with false claims and advice have gone unlabeled to warn users of the misleading content. Not only did Facebook’s … Read more
How abuse lies left me traumatised: Lord Brittan’s widow slams ‘appalling’ false claims of VIP paedophile ring by fantasist Carl Beech Lady Brittan said she feared a ‘nervous breakdown’ following the allegations Her husband was among those false accused of child abuse by Carl Beech Lord Brittan died of cancer in January 2015 before his … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that a coronavirus test kit may return ‘inaccurate results.’ Health officials said on Monday there are two issues with the TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit produced by laboratory equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific. Firstly, the test, which detects the virus in respiratory samples, has had numerous complaints of false positive … Read more
‘Many people’ are injured amid panic in Cannes as hundreds flee false reports of a gunman on the loose There were reports of gunfire shortly after midnight in the famous seaside town Armed police were called and people were seen running and screaming in panic But local Mayor David Lisnard said the incident turned out … Read more
Trump walks out of his COVID relief press conference after a reporter pressed him on his claim that he created the Veterans Choice program – which was passed under Obama in 2014 Trump abruptly left signing ceremony of executive orders on Saturday Reporter pressed him on his false claim that he signed Veteran’s Choice Act … Read more
Big Brother’s Josh Martinez will not be on this season of All Stars because of an alleged false positive coronavirus test: ‘To be clear my health is great’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 00:18 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 00:18 BST, 7 August 2020 Josh Martinez of the enormously popular reality game show … Read more
House prices jumped £4,500 in July as lockdown buyers hit the market but Nationwide warns of a ‘false dawn’ House prices bounced back in July, reports Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide said level of activity in the property market is better than expected But it warns ‘there is a risk this proves to be something … Read more
Crackdown on fraudsters exposes nearly £2billion of false benefits claims and overpayments The National Fraud Initiative matches data with public and private sector bodies It has identified £245 million of incorrect payments in the past two years alone The abuses range from housing benefits to disabled parking badges By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 01:31 BST, 19 … Read more
Up to ONE-THIRD of all coronavirus antibody tests may come back as false negatives, study finds Researchers looked at 40 studies analyzing coronavirus antibody tests, which determine if someone has previously been infected Sensitivity rates, meaning the rate at which tests come back positive, ranged from 66% to 97.8% This means between 2.2% and more than … Read more