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Claims that CDC’S PCR test can’t tell covid from flu are wrong Posts circulating on Facebook and Instagram claim the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop using its covid-19 test because it cannot differentiate between the covid virus and flu viruses. CDC has just announced they will revoke the emergency use authorization of the RT-PCR tests first introduced in 2/20, reads a July 25 post, which goes on to quote from the agency s lab directive: CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS CoV-2 and influenza viruses. It continues: Translation: They’ve been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.

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