How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
By Mark Lorch
5th July 2021
From The Conversation
- Some children have found a devious method to get out of school – using cola to create false positive Covid tests. How does it work?
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Is there then a way to spot a fake positive test? The antibodies (like most proteins) are capable of refolding and regaining their function when they are returned to more favourable conditions. So I tried washing a test that had been dripped with cola with buffer solution, and sure enough the immobilised antibodies at the T-line regained normal function and released the gold particles, revealing the true negative result on the test.
Children, I applaud your ingenuity, but now that I’ve found a way to uncover your trickery I suggest you use your cunning to devise a set of experiments and test my hypothesis. Then we can publish your results in a peer-reviewed journal.
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I find that a test so easy fooled MUST be considered unreliable.
Argh!
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Reinke Faces Life 
Heh, It is a good thing that they did not have tests like this when I was in grammar school Or I would have been making very good use of them!