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adastra22 on March 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown

> and reality is vastly higher than what is being reported because the system now relies on self reporting from RAT tests

Uh, that's not obvious. The RAT tests have massive false positive rates compared with PCR tests. Do they follow up a rapid antigen test with PCR?

The chinese vaccine is garbage too. Even the official numbers are not great, but some countries which bought the Chinese vaccine tried to return it because many batches that they got failed QA tests.

procinct on March 13, 2022 | [–]

Yes, they follow it up with a PCR

rubatuga on March 14, 2022 | [–]

I think you mean false negative? There are very little false positives.

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