Eh? It's plain as day. The original test could not detect influenza. Only sars2.

Was it 'designed' to? Or 'supposed' to? Maybe not, maybe so. Kinda moot now. My implication was, how many people were tested who had fluish/cold ish/corona symptoms, tested negative or possibly threw the test and got a false positive or false negative/inconclusive but actually had a cold or influenza, and categorised as having covid anyway, as a precaution? Seeing as the PCR (the old version used in canada) can and does have an innaccurate rate of anywhere from 30-50% garbage results if you are trying to find rona on folk that don't even have it and just a sniffle.

Would trhat not skew covid stats, and cause undue concern in people, especially as those numbers are passed on to the dinosaur media, and you know how they love to doom and gloom everything.

You may not remember Bonnie Henry basically saying its a waste of time testing everyone showing up with no symptoms because you can get false negatives and then maybe get a positive in the same person the same day.

Eh? It's plain as day. The original test could not detect influenza. Only sars2.

Was it 'designed' to? Or 'supposed' to? Maybe not, maybe so. Kinda moot now. My implication was, how many people were tested who had fluish/cold ish/corona symptoms, tested negative, but actually had a cold or influenza, and categorised as having covid anyway, as a precaution? Would trhat not skew covid stats, and cause undue concern in people, especially as those numbers are passed on to the dinosaur media, and you know how they love to doom and gloom everything.

You may not remember Bonnie Henry basically saying we will assume its covid on some testing if no positive is found? Or would you like some video of her saying that?