{"id":32176,"date":"2021-10-14T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=32176"},"modified":"2021-10-14T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T07:28:01","slug":"lateral-flow-tests-covid-test-discrepancy-mystery-deepens-as-dozens-say-postal-pcrs-now-coming-back-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/lateral-flow-tests-covid-test-discrepancy-mystery-deepens-as-dozens-say-postal-pcrs-now-coming-back-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lateral flow tests: Covid test discrepancy mystery deepens as dozens say postal PCRs now coming back positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24352\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/testing-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"paddle previous loaded\" data-aop=\"paddles_prev\" data-id=\"50\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:50,&quot;p&quot;:49,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;previous&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:14,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"articlecontent allowvig loaded\" data-id=\"52\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:52,&quot;p&quot;:49,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;article&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:3}\" data-nativead-placements=\"article_aside:3;singlecard1:1;singlecard2:1;singlecard3:1;singlecard4:1;singlecard5:1;singlecard6:1;singlecard7:1;singlecard8:1;singlecard9:1;singlecard10:1;singlecard11:1;\">\n<section class=\"flexarticle\" data-id=\"53\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:53,&quot;p&quot;:52,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;flexarticle&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\">\n<section class=\"articlebody   \" data-id=\"54\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:54,&quot;p&quot;:53,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;articlebody&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\">Several people who have\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/covid-lateral-flow-tests-negative-pcr-1236141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"58\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:58,&quot;p&quot;:54,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">tested positive for Covid-19 on lateral flow tests<\/a> have reported testing negative on in-centre polymerase chain reaction tests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/offbeat\/lateral-flow-tests-covid-test-discrepancy-mystery-deepens-as-dozens-say-postal-pcrs-now-coming-back-positive\/ar-AAPt2rN?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Several people who have\u00a0tested positive for Covid-19 on lateral flow tests have reported testing negative on in-centre polymerase chain reaction tests Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32177,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32176\/revisions\/32177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}