Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 05:07:28 PM

Quote from: Mad7Scientist on Today at 04:56:51 PM

This is a very important topic for discussion. If it is true that the tests test positive for many different viruses, maybe that is why the government delayed allowing companies to produce the tests for a month.

I'm still looking in to it, but if the RT-PCR tests grow more DNA/RNA, doesn't that RNA still have to be analyzed to determine what kind of virus it is?

One would take it for granted that the RT-PCR tests were primered with sequences which were unique to SARS-cov-2. I sure did. Now I am reading from some doctors that all they detect is general coronavirus. And even that is hit-n-miss...since, again, they are pushing the cycles way up to the no-go zone where nothing is very accurate.

even as far back as christmas. lab techs were actually doing proper analysis and actually verified that it was not just 'normal' / general corona virus

some labs have tried to rap up speeds of testing more people faster. but this has taken time. yes mistakes were made. but they didnt just carry on using machines that made mistakes..
its why for instance in the UK once they found a nice accurate level. they then made many machines to multiply how many tests they can sample at once.

think about computing analogy CPU. once they get to the limit of speed per core then then multiply the cores. and then make servers of multiple boards . a super computer is not a single core processor being ran at super speed.

these 'mega labs' dont just have one machine running super fast..

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in some developing countries. they did use outdated tech. but that was more because of a 'better than nothing' atleast they would know it was a virus and not bacterial/panic attac/asthma
however as the days/weeks pass it is show that even those developing countries are getting access to the accurate machines

also hopsitals keep samples of the patients even after release/decease so if there are any inconsistancies they can retest.