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Home tests for COVID, pregnancy and STIs can be unreliable – experts

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Many home diagnostic tests are so poorly regulated they can be as unreliable as chance, a new NZ Medical Journal report warns.

The paper highlights rapidly growing use since the pandemic, noting that some over-the-counter Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT tests) — including those for chlamydia, gonorrhoea and herpes — were heavily marketed despite never being verified, with overseas data showing high rates of false positives and false negatives.

One STI test missed between 37% and 88% of infections, and past pregnancy kits have been withdrawn after alarming error rates.

Pathologist Samarina Musaad told state-funded media inaccurate results can cause serious harm, from misinformed pregnancy decisions to increased STI transmission due to false reassurance.

“There are huge concerns from many clinicians that these tests are little more than the flip of a coin,” she said.



Sub-standard tests have even reached clinical settings, while Pharmac can still fund unapproved devices. Regulations Minister David Seymour said Medsafe cannot vet every overseas product but urged consumers to buy from pharmacies, with work underway on a stronger approval process.

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  1. I suppose if they are looking for something that does not exist like the fake PCR Tests I suppose they would be deemed as being somewhat unreliable
    Covid which is in all influenza
    A complete fabrication and fraud from start to finish like Christchurch

    • Like I said PCR Tests are looking for something that as such does not exist
      Which Kary Mullis inventor of the PCR Test said were never intended for that purpose
      Which is why people were being told they had ‘covid’ while being asymptomatic and showing no signs
      Unless they had influenza when they got tested
      No virus has ever been isolated separated nor identified as a specific stand alone virus
      Which is why it was a computer construct model
      Because repeat as such does not exist
      Then the definition of isolated changed to glove the fake narrative
      Spewed out to the public as safe proven effective
      Heads need to roll
      But I doubt Big Pharma (Pharmakeia) would allow their figureheads to take a hit

  2. Andrew Kaufman Destroys Judy Mikovits’ Theory On Viruses.
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/FMQ7RxKueMRT/
    Its people like Judy Mikovits who made the ‘covid’ deception and fraud possible
    Like Our Own Shadow of the Beast pocket Edition bought and paid for MSM
    Who provided a platform from which to launch a fake pandemic
    This goes back a long way
    The squeaky wheel gets the funding
    Like Judeo Christianity all You have to do is make the right noises (501 (C)(3)
    In the same vein as Our local home grown experts all of which were peddling a lie
    The vaccines the PCR Tests the masks the lockdowns the social distancing
    We are one
    Trust Us
    Unless You hear it from Us
    All BS all Lies

  3. My male Rottweiler peed on a pregnancy test stick that confirmed he was …PREGNANT!
    BAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW…

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