that's the risk, isn't it?

trust me, just had a fight with my wife this evening because i sent an email to the school about covid testing.

Please be a force for good. Can you please provide information regarding your testing methods? Additionally, what is the District’s policy regarding testing? Do you need parental consent before testing? Can you point me to the District’s policy?

Please report the type of test reported. Specifically, is it an antibody, antigen (POC), or molecular (PCR) test. If PCR, please report the cycle threshold (Ct). The FDA recently joined the WHO and Dr. Fauci, warning increased Ct can lead to false positives. The WHO recommends the Ct value be reported. If it is an antigen test, is it lab confirmed before being reported?

From the FDA https://www.fda.gov/health-professionals/closer-look-covid-19-diagnostic-testing

From the WHO https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users

Dr. Anthony Fauci - admitted that the PCR Test's high Ct is misleading: “What is now sort of evolving into a bit of a standard,” Fauci said, is that “if you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more … the chances of it being replication-confident are minuscule.” “It’s very frustrating for the patients as well as for the physicians,” he continued, when “somebody comes in, and they repeat their PCR, and it’s like [a] 37 cycle threshold, but you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle.” So, I think if somebody does come in with 37, 38, even 36, you got to say, you know, it’s just dead nucleotides, period.”

Some additional information:

Here are a few headlines from experts and scientific studies:

1. Experts compiled three datasets with officials from the states of Massachusetts, New York and Nevada that conclude:“Up to 90% of the people who tested positive did not carry a virus."
2. The Wadworth Center, a New York State laboratory, analyzed the results of its July tests at the request of the NYT: 794 positive tests with a Ct of 40: “With a Ct threshold of 35, approximately half of these PCR tests would no longer be considered positive,” said the NYT. “And about 70% would no longer be considered positive with a Ct of 30! “
3. An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful.
4. A new study from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, found that at 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of PCR test "positives" are not "cases" since the virus cannot be cultured, it's dead. And by 35: 97% of the positives are non-clinical.
5. PCR is not testing for disease, it's testing for a specific RNA pattern and this is the key pivot. When you crank it up to 25, 70% of the positive results are not really "positives" in any clinical sense, since it cannot make you or anyone else sick So, in summary, with regard to our current "casedemic", positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a “case” of anything. They indicate that viral RNA was found in a nasal swab. It may be enough to make you sick, but according to the New York Times and their experts, probably won’t. And certainly not sufficient replication of the virus to make anyone else sick. But you will be sent home for ten days anyway, even if you never have a sniffle. And this is the number the media breathlessly reports... and is used to fearmonger mask mandates and lockdowns nationwide...

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-admits-pcr-tests-give-false-results-prepares-ground-biden-virus-rescue-miracle