南加州 - Kaiser Permanente ran a quiet internal experiment in Southern California on the COVID-19 swab tests the country was using in the first half of 2020. Office staff on the business side were split: half actually used the swab, half submitted unused kits. The lab was not told. Unused swabs came back positive. In one California office group, every blank came back positive. That is not a diagnostic. That is noise dressed up as a result.
The trial was not published as a journal paper at the time. Workers and clinicians who saw the numbers described false positives on blanks, and a positivity rate that could not be trusted to decide who got isolated, who got fired, and who got a hospital bed. Emergency-use PCR assays were sensitive enough to pick up dead viral fragments weeks after a person was no longer infectious. Cycle-threshold cutoffs were not standardized. Two labs could call the same sample opposite ways.
西班牙放弃了中国的药包,医生们都把药包 准确度提高到30%左右。 联合王国说,数百万个进口包不可靠。 印度称准确性差. A 2021 (英语). 职业和环境医学期刊 study of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in a large U.S. workforce later found that of 239 positives after pre-employment tests were stripped out, 54 — 22.6 percent — were deemed false positives. That is the same class of problem Kaiser’s people had already watched on unused plastic.
测试情况好转了 第一年的决定没有被改写
Later FDA-authorized PCR tests got better. The CDC now calls PCR the gold standard. Rapid antigen tests miss people who are actually infectious; specificity sits around 99 percent when used as directed. None of that rewinds 2020. Schools, jobs, travel, and hospital beds were allocated on a diagnostic that a healthcare giant’s own staff had already watched fail a blank swab.
The AEGIS Alliance reported it because a healthcare giant testing its own kits in secret is the definition of a conflict the public was not supposed to see. Kaiser still publishes member-facing COVID testing guidance. The blank-swab trial never became a press release. Related: our 护理 动作文件, Gilbarco的一天请假信,则 刘炳炳,以及更多 卫生新闻..
