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    Flu Shot Doesn’t Cause False Positive Results for COVID-19

    by Angelo Fichera May 19, 2020 4 minutes
    Quick Take

    A viral claim on Facebook erroneously tells users that “you will test positive” for COVID-19 if “you’ve gotten flu shots during the past ten years.” Vaccine and infectious disease experts told us that’s false, and the Food and Drug Administration says this hasn’t been observed in any authorized tests.

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    Social media users are spreading a baseless claim that the flu vaccine will lead to a false-positive test result for COVID-19.

    “If you had a flu shot you will get likely get a false positive on a covid19 test,” a Facebook claims. assert: “If you’ve gotten flu shots during the past ten years, you will test positive for the Wuhan strain of the Covid-19

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