Fact Check: Don't trust this hoax video, rapid antigen tests are not pre-decided
India TodayWhat do you think testing laboratories do with your Covid samples before declaring you positive or negative? Still trust science?” Going through the product literature of many rapid antigen test kits, India Today Anti Fake News War Room found that the positive and negative control swabs are just for training and testing the efficacy of the kit. Many Covid-19 rapid antigen test kits do contain positive and negative control swabs. The United States Food & Drug Administration recommends that patient tests should not be performed if the test fails to detect positive and/or negative control swabs accurately. The positive and negative control swabs present in these kits are only meant to ensure that the actual testing devices work properly and give accurate results.
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