Claim: "Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to acknowledge that large numbers of positive COVID-19 cases may arise from oversensitive tests that pick up mere fragments of the virus rather than active, viable infections. If true, many patients may have been receiving false-positive test results"
Fact-check: Claim that high PCR test sensitivity inflates COVID-19 cases wrongly conflates the issue of contagiousness with the presence of infection - Science Feedback
Verdict: incorrect
Organisation: Science Feedback
Author: Flora Teoh
Date published: 2020-11-12T15:10:05