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Government - Publish false positive and negative Covid-19 test data for Pillar 2

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MoleSmokes · 05/10/2020 09:40

Please sign and share this Petition on the Government web site.

It is impossible to estimate the likely prevalence of Covid-19 without knowing the predicted rates of false positives and negatives from Pillar 2 (Community) PCR Testing.

At the moment, all positive results are described as "cases", which is misleading enough in itself:

  • they are not "cases", ie. clinical diagnoses of Covid-19;


  • they are simply positive results from a screening test, only a fraction of which will indicate actual infection, possibly as low as 10% of all positive test results.


It has been suggested by many scientists that the rate of false positives may be as high as 90%.

However, Government has so far refused to publish the information needed to test this assumption.

Petition:

"The Government should publish the false positive and negative test results data for PCR tests on Pillar 2 since the outbreak began, and include these results alongside the graphs and other data the government already publishes on our response to the Covid pandemic.

The data surrounding Pillar 2 testing is being used as the basis for imposing massive restrictions on liberty and society. Public scrutiny of this data must be facilitated."
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