Coronavirus test touted by Trump produces many false negatives: study

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Source: AFP/Yahoo

Washington (AFP) - A rapid coronavirus test touted by President Donald Trump and used to test White House officials produces false negatives in almost half of all cases, according to new study by researchers at NYU Langone Health.

The test by Abbott Laboratories, which returns positive results in five minutes and negative in 13 minutes, was compared with machines that have a turnaround time of 45 minutes.

The researchers found that the Abbott test produced false negatives about a third of the time when virus sample taken using a nasal swab was transported in liquid solution, and 48 percent of the time when the swab was dry, which is the method recommended by the company.

The results of the study -- which has not yet been peer reviewed and was posted on a medical preprint site -- were contested by Abbott, which told AFP it was unclear that the samples were taken correctly.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-test-touted-trump-produces-many-false-negatives-211359658.html

[Chemisse]

1. That will come as a fun little surprise around the White House in the coming weeks.

Trump, thy name is ineptitude, and at that you are the model of consistency.

[Rebl2]

2. Is the

CEO of Abbott Lab. a trump donor? Just curious.

[intrepidity]

3. Would like to read that preprint study

But the Yahoo article doesn't even include a link. Weird.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Flipping a coin would be as accurate

[SunSeeker]

6. Right? Holy shit. How can it be approved with a 50% false negative?

[Initech]

5. I'm shocked, shocked!! Well not that shocked.

[orangecrush]

7. Unsurprised

[EarthFirst]

8. I don't recall if this this test was fast tracked by the FDA or not...

Doesn’t necessarily bode confidence on “Warp Speed” either...

[Corgigal]

9. Idiots,

and he offered all his CEO friends a run on his machine.

Good, all idiots and the greed of these assholes could kill us all.