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An Australia-based company is recalling hundreds of thousands of coronavirus tests after discovering that certain Ellume COVID-19 home tests give higher false-positive results than expected.

https://oltnews.com/ellume-recalls-more-than-400000-home-coronavirus-test-kits-due-to-false-positives

**An Australia-based company is recalling hundreds of thousands of coronavirus tests after discovering that certain Ellume COVID-19 home tests give higher false-positive results than expected.** https://oltnews.com/ellume-recalls-more-than-400000-home-coronavirus-test-kits-due-to-false-positives

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[–] 6 pts

certain Ellume COVID-19 home tests give higher false-positive results than expected.

[–] 6 pts

Yeah, how many false positives do they admit are to be expected in the first place?

[–] 5 pts

By "unspecified" they mean that they put the culture on the wrong side of the test. I remember hearing about this when the tests were first produced.

[–] 1 pt

so they put rona in people's nose, eh? Oops.

Since they have total legal immunity they have no reason to disclose jack shit.

[–] 0 pt

Considering how the application they are being used for will give a false positive every time the faulty application is performed correctly