“It tests for and detects specific RNA sequences to the virus. John Mackay, technical director of testing and diagnostics company DNature Diagnostics, also told AFP via email “the PCR test does test for the virus”.
“The test looks for RNA sequences that are present in the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Covid-19 virus) which are not present in other viruses known to infect humans,” he said in a September 11 email. Thomas Lumley, professor of biostatistics at the University of Auckland told AFP in an email the genetic material the Covid-19 PCR tests for is “of known significance”. Does the Covid-19 PCR test for genetic material ‘we don’t know the significance of ’?Īround the video's three-minute, thirty-second mark Bailey says “there are major problems with this diagnostic test, in that it doesn’t test for the virus, it tests for a piece of genetic material that we don’t know the significance of”. The claims made in the video by Dr Bailey are also misleading. The YouTube link has been interacted with on Facebook over 5,800 times after being posted by the Advance New Zealand and New Zealand Public Party (NZPP) page, here.ĪFP Factcheck has previously found claims made by NZPP leader Billy Te Kahika to be misleading, and showed that one of the joint Advance NZ/NZPP election campaign videos used misleadingly edited parliamentary footage. The video making claims about PCR testing in New Zealand was originally posted to YouTube here on September 2, 2020. Sam Bailey which has over 90,000 subscribers. Over the duration of the seven minute video doctor Samantha Bailey makes a number of claims about the Covid-19 PCR test the claims have been broken down below.ĭr Bailey has featured on the TVNZ-1 series The Checkup and runs her own YouTube channel called Dr. A screenshot of the video, taken September 11, 2020.
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