bluethrunthru
Well-Known Member
You need a large amount of virus present to trigger a positive test with a lateral flow. That’s why positives are now taken as read to be correct with them (only 3 in 10,000 tests have been shown to return a false positive).
PCR tests are far more sensitive and can detect tiny amounts of virus. That’s why many people can test negative on a LFT but subsequently positively with a PCR. The converse is very unusual.
As such, the idea that inadvertent contamination occurred across multiple, privately conducted LFT tests I find highly unlikely. Even if some buffoon had touched the swabs of each and every player’s swab just prior to him dipping it into the liquid in the test tubes, it is unlikely even then there would be sufficient virus on his fingers tips to trigger a “high bar” positive LFT.
As I pointed out earlier, the chances of multiple players all returning false positives run into one in several trillion.
I see Liverpool are know admitting only one positive test actually proved to be so: i.e. all the others were somehow false positives.
There was either a faulty batch of tests (and surely each player has their own box of LFTs of some which will have been from different batches) or …?
the conclusion of all this will be sheer poetry when we have the toothy one moaning about end of season fixture pileups caused by their own mismanagement