“COVID19 PCR tests are scientifically meaningless.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 27 Jun 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are among the most common and reliable ways to test for the coronavirus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 June 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 July 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20200705202306/https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pc…
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