Here they speak about it on the FDA. The problem is that they if say 10 people are pooled and the test comes back positive. They are supposed to individually test everyone in that group to see who's positive. But they won't and this will be how they get their numbers. Nobody knows about pool testing so when their test says positive they assume it's because they were given an individual test and were positive. But of all 10 pooled only one actual person may of been infective yet all 10 tests show positive. So now the lab has 10 positives for the infection of one.If that makes any sense
If your niece was put into a group and it showed positive without them even realizing she was absent and there was a positive individual in her group so the test came back positive. Her test would show up positive as well. And unless they then called every person in from her group they wouldn't know which person was positive and thus what I think is happening in her situation.
Here they speak about it on the FDA. The problem is that they if say 10 people are pooled and the test comes back positive. They are supposed to individually test everyone in that group to see who's positive. But they won't and this will be how they get their numbers. Nobody knows about pool testing so when their test says positive they assume it's because they were given an individual test and were positive. But of all 10 pooled only one actual person may of been infective yet all 10 tests show positive. So now the lab has 10 positives for the infection of one.If that makes any sense
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-facilitating-diagnostic-test-availability-asymptomatic-testing-and
If your niece was put into a group and it showed positive without them even realizing she was absent and there was a positive individual in her group so the test came back positive. Her test would show up positive as well. And unless they then called every person in from her group they wouldn't know which person was positive and thus what I think is happening in her situation.
I hope you still don't think I'm dimwitted
I'm sorry to have intimated that, I meant the policy is dimwitted!
It sure is. But we knew they wouldn't remove the PCR test without another angle to keep the pandemic up