{"id":216592,"date":"2020-11-16T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216592"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:20:18","slug":"elon-musk-claims-he-tested-positive-and-negative-for-coronavirus-on-the-same-day-after-four-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216592","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk claims he tested positive and negative for coronavirus on the same day after four tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Evening Standard \u2013 Nov 13, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elon-musk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elon-musk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Elon Musk is claiming he received two positive and two negative <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/span> test results on the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The SpaceX founder shared what he described as \u201cbogus\u201d findings from four rapid antigen tests on Twitter on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cSomething extremely bogus is going on,&#8221; wrote Musk on the social media platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cSame machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Musk appeared to warn others about the accuracy of the tests as he said: \u201cIf it\u2019s happening to me, it\u2019s happening to others.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He told his followers that he would be getting Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests from seperate labs, adding that the results for the PCR tests should take about 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unlike PCR tests, which detect the virus\u2019s genetic material, antigen testing looks for proteins that are specific to the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1327125840040169472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They require a swab to be taken and are also only used to determine whether a person is currently infected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The process is usually quicker than PRC testing and can provide results in as little as 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Musk said that he was currently not experiencing any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/covid-19\">Covid-19<\/a><\/strong><\/span> symptoms but over the past few fays he had \u201cmild sniffles&#8221; a cough and a slight fever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes after Musk faced accusations of spreading misinformation about the virus from Dr Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and associate research scientist at the Center of Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University School of Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr Rasmussen took issue with Musk\u2019s claim that there were a \u201cridiculous number of false positive tests\u201d and that false positives were the reason why cases were so high in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/elon-musk-coronavirus-tests-positive-negative-b69559.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising more questions about coronavirus and the tests that are supposed to detect it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216593,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216592\/revisions\/216593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}