PRC defends accuracy, credibility of its Covid-19 laboratory exam Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco


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The Philippine Red Cross (PRC), defending the integrity of Covid positive results issued by their Subic laboratory on the samples, acknowledged on Tuesday the possibility of “false positive” results, and stressed that “no test is 100 percent accurate.” The PRC said that the test methodology and procedures are standardized in all its 13 laboratories across the country, adding that the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) sends proficiency test (PT) samples to the lab using a random-blind method. According to PRC, this control method wherein the RITM sends PRC samples, wherein RITM already knows the results, will be compared with...