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Rapid swabs accused: “They give 50% false positives”

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Fast, comfortable, ideal for mass screening. “But not very reliable”, experts have been repeating in chorus for days, and not only. Rapid anti-Covid swabs are becoming the sore point of the year-end fight against the pandemic. The pointing finger comes from many places.

Gives Walter Ricciardi, consultant of the Ministry of Health, who explained: “They are the real Achilles heel, because in the best of cases they leave uncovered 30% of false negatives, therefore infected who acquire the green pass and infect on average between 6 and 7 people, resulting in a growth mechanism “.

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