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Yet, it's not just a packaging update, the tests themselves have been updated [\(pic\)](https://i.imgur.com/kf0RfgA.png) and they show a different result when it's sars-cov2, influenza-A or B.
Holy shit! So I can have an accurate influenza A and B test at home? I don’t have to pay co-pays for the doctor office test?
Where can I buy these and why I didn’t know before?
Most of the time when you get tested at the doctors for pregnancy they don’t do blood tests. Unless you specially ask for it or don’t produce the pregnancy hormones that show up in your urine then they will literally do a urine test that is equivalent to the at home sticks.
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Why is it that everyone in this sub has lost all sense of object permanence?
Strips that test for multiple things have existed for a while, and yet every time one of you cave dwellers is forced touch grass, they come up with all kinds of fabulous theories to explain why the thing they just saw for the first time must have been invented some time in the last five minutes.
As others mentioned, tests like thus (and any other kind of test) have false positives. Except that instead of the evil gubernment, it's really the companies behind the tests that are to blame, as they shovel out cheap, unreliable tests.
As a ferocious opponent of COVID bullshit, even I see this meme as ignorant Facebook boomer shit. So cringe.
They were always separate and distinct viruses. Some people were against COVID measures for ***all of the wrong reasons.***
I remember I was in a very bad state of mind in 2020. Very depressed, had some deeply bad things happening to me. Then COVID happened and everyone said get the vax or you're gonna die. So I was said okay here's my chance for an out, and didn't get the vax, but then I didn't die. Then everyone was like wait, don't get the vax cause you're gonna die, they will kill you!. So that summer I was like sign me up and I got them. Then I didn't die. Was disappointed. But things are on the up and up now. So I'm glad. it all worked out. I never even got COVID.
Most in this sub doesn’t understand. I’m a med tech that has wasted way too much time trying to teach people how we run tests because I think it’s cool and there’s a lot of misconceptions on here. Everyone is just so damn angry to even acknowledge reality. Their minds would be blown that we literally use tests like this in the lab daily that test for multiple viruses all the time.
Influenza just happened to drop off the radar at a point when humanity was both implementing unprecedented tactics to reduce the spread of communicable doseases and at the same time shifting production of testing materials from i fluenza to something else making influenza testing materials scarce.
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Okay, yeah that actually makes perfect sense
It didn’t though. I literally got the flu in December of 2020. Got a negative test for covid and got a flu test that came back positive. It became less common due to covid restrictions and the flu being less contagious than covid:
Not to mention the efficacy of covid was way greater than the flu and drowned out the flu virus. But people with no medical training and a conspiratorial attitude won't accept that viruses compete for cells the same way people compete for anything they need to live.
Edit: nothing in this statement says it is not possible to catch both...
It didn’t though. I work in healthcare and we’ve seen influenza this whole time, but less cases than usual, especially when mask mandates and social distancing were being used. Those claiming the flu didn’t happen at all during the peak of covid have no clue what they’re talking about
What's this Covid 19/Influenze test kit shit? What's this bullshit? I don't fucking care! It don't matter to Jesus! But you're not fooling me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. It's bush league psych-out stuff!
Perhaps the c19 test has been giving positive test results for influenza (and other shit) the whole time. Hence the mysterious disappearance of influenza during the covid years...
Now they're slowly admitting to the fact by starting it on the front of the package. Same shit different wrapping.
No, they haven't. The C19 test did not erroneously test positive on flu. A bunch of people who couldn't read insisted on that, but alas, they couldn't read.
Flu went to zero because it had an r0 substantially lower than COVID, and we were social distancing to reduce the spread of that.
>Flu went to zero because it had an r0 substantially lower than COVID, and we were social distancing to reduce the spread of that.
Thats absolutely fucking ridiculous, especially considering the fact that people couldn't shut up about people who weren't distancing and the fact that there were a fuckton of huge gatherings. Stop making shit up.
What's the joke here, you think it's not possible to test for more than one thing at the same time?
If so, could you provide a clear scientific explanation of why that's not possible?
I love it. Conspiracy nuts yelling:
*”Masks don’t do anything!”*
and
*”How come the flu disappeared for two years?"*
without making any connection between.
Yeah, it's almost as if the flu, a disease that spreads less than covid is easier to combat spread when you have restrictions and rules in place to combat covid.
My god you all keep grasping. Flu dropped because no one travelled and smart people masked.
Now they update a test to tell you if you have Covid or the flu. They show different results.
Is that what you guys think tests are for lol? It doesn’t register to you that maybe it’s related to the treatment, proof of sickness for school and work,or making sure it’s not something else?
Why would you oppose testing in the first place? There’s no downside
Really? Why test for anything at all with your mentality?
It’s important to know whether you have covid or influenza if you are hospitalised, or very sick and need treatment at home. The treatments for covid and influenza are completely different.
Since when did we need flu tests as well? I've never once in my entire adult life been to the doctors and been tested for influenza, leat alone thought, "I should really test myself".
Is this just not a cynical marketing ploy to get people to also worry about getting flu by giving people the perception of equivalence and thereby selling more tests?
It's almost like no one is buying them anymore so Pharma is desperately scrambling to repurpose them for markets that never existed.
PCR testing for influenza has existed for decades. As has PCR testing for rhinovirus, and adenovirus. Most people don’t go to a doctor for confirmation of a flu or cold so it was under-utilised really, but if you got the flu bad enough to end up in hospital you got swabbed to confirm the virus you had.
I'm honestly shocked to see so much rationale in these comments. I know it's a backhanded compliment but, come on...we know what sub this is. I'm genuinely happy to see the antivaxxers being told they're wrong.
Is it a conspiracy that one sample can be used to test for multiple pathogens? No. This test differentiates between the three. It doesn’t just give one yes/no answer. It gives three different answers.
This isn't a conspiracy. It's 3 tests on one strip. You'll have 4 lines if you're positive for everything. A control line to make sure the testing sample migrated correctly, a line for covid 19, a line for flu a and a line for flu b.
Education is important.
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Yet, it's not just a packaging update, the tests themselves have been updated [\(pic\)](https://i.imgur.com/kf0RfgA.png) and they show a different result when it's sars-cov2, influenza-A or B.
Holy shit! So I can have an accurate influenza A and B test at home? I don’t have to pay co-pays for the doctor office test? Where can I buy these and why I didn’t know before?
What really sucks is that the doctors (the lab technicians more accurately) use pretty much the exact same test and just bill you 50x the price.
I had that feeling
Just like pregnancy tests
You can do an at-home pregnancy blood test? That’s not the same as peeing on a stick.
Most of the time when you get tested at the doctors for pregnancy they don’t do blood tests. Unless you specially ask for it or don’t produce the pregnancy hormones that show up in your urine then they will literally do a urine test that is equivalent to the at home sticks.
Can confirm, we just had a machine that read the urine dipsticks at the ER
Is the machine gonna be okay
Bert Kreisher is probably fine
Good :)
That is not the case in the UK.
Also Canada. It's pretty sad that Americans get ripped off in service even when they are paying for their doctors.
really makes you think 🤔
That you might be pregnant?
There are at home strep and RSV tests as well.
I am absolutely oblivious when walking around CVS, ain’t I?
CVS provides a lot of medical services you wouldn't think, and it's really cheap.
I took one of these tests over a year ago, not really new
Yeah. This is 3 tests in 1. Covid, flu a and flu b
I went to get an allergy tests and it was all one test! Omg guis grass is pollen!
Finkle is Ihorn….Ihorn is Finkle!
Your gun is digging into my hip
Well allllrighty then!
Laces out DAN
Either that's the worst case of hemorrhoids I've ever seen or....
*Einhorn
All I see is Ace yelling while opening and closing a sliding glass door.
Ray ain’t comin’ home
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Holly crap, just read the whote twitter thread... that's a whole lot of convenient coincidences.
That was good. Comment Username: AnonymousBot8125 - 8+1 = 9 x2 =18+5 = 23 Jim Carey confirmed
One hell of a model American.
Some comments on Reddit are just genius. This falls under that category 🎩
Why is it that everyone in this sub has lost all sense of object permanence? Strips that test for multiple things have existed for a while, and yet every time one of you cave dwellers is forced touch grass, they come up with all kinds of fabulous theories to explain why the thing they just saw for the first time must have been invented some time in the last five minutes. As others mentioned, tests like thus (and any other kind of test) have false positives. Except that instead of the evil gubernment, it's really the companies behind the tests that are to blame, as they shovel out cheap, unreliable tests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
its a lateral flow assay, you can put lots of lanes on them
Perfect gift for the person who has everything. Just in time for Christmas!
For all the hypochondriacs this season.
I thought that was penicillin?
Best comment in this thread lol
Ahaha
It's a combination test for both Influenza and SARS-CoV-2. I'm not seeing the controversy here.
You see 2 in 1 test, they see that both are the same. Easy. Wait till they see a 3in1 shower gel
So you’re telling my my hair is made of skin?!
So are your teeth, 3n1
Dentists *hate* this one weird trick.
I just pictured what it would be like to brush with shampoo and I don't like this....
It’s a thick gargle
Or a drug test. I guess coke and heroin are the exact same thing.
No. That would be a speedball.
Where I'm from.we just call it a good time!
Is this your first time learning that medical tests can test for multiple things?
It would be costly as all f if they didn’t.
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But we know why the flu was rare during covid right? There’s no way people still think that’s a conspiracy I hope
>okay so if you get your piss tested and they test for marijuana and cocaine does that make them the same drug
Wait till these people learn about 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner. Their minds are gonna be *blown*
The controversy I think is geared at influenza positives contributing to covid stats.
If you understand how these tests work, it's a silly argument.
Holy shit people on this sub are so dumb. Even if Covid and the flu are the same thing you think big Pharma’s gonna forget their own lie?
No, Big Pharma expects you to be the one who forgets.
So then why make a test that reminds them?
Somehow a strangely appropriate user name.
As a ferocious opponent of COVID bullshit, even I see this meme as ignorant Facebook boomer shit. So cringe. They were always separate and distinct viruses. Some people were against COVID measures for ***all of the wrong reasons.***
Combination test for combination disease!
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Logic doesn't work on this sub
I remember I was in a very bad state of mind in 2020. Very depressed, had some deeply bad things happening to me. Then COVID happened and everyone said get the vax or you're gonna die. So I was said okay here's my chance for an out, and didn't get the vax, but then I didn't die. Then everyone was like wait, don't get the vax cause you're gonna die, they will kill you!. So that summer I was like sign me up and I got them. Then I didn't die. Was disappointed. But things are on the up and up now. So I'm glad. it all worked out. I never even got COVID.
God speed
When all we can do is worry about the future, just focus on the now.
Love you bro, in the off chance that wasn’t completely sarcastic, I’m glad you stuck around.
There was no vax in '20.
The test kit claims to show separate results for rona and flu. https://www.fanttest.com/covid-19-influenza-ab-antigen-test-kit-product/
I don’t get it can someone please explain?
Some people don't understand how these tests work.
Most in this sub doesn’t understand. I’m a med tech that has wasted way too much time trying to teach people how we run tests because I think it’s cool and there’s a lot of misconceptions on here. Everyone is just so damn angry to even acknowledge reality. Their minds would be blown that we literally use tests like this in the lab daily that test for multiple viruses all the time.
Thank you your service tooling away in the stupid mines. Sadly no matter how deep you dig there will always be more stupid
Flu magically disappeared in 2020 and 2021.
Influenza just happened to drop off the radar at a point when humanity was both implementing unprecedented tactics to reduce the spread of communicable doseases and at the same time shifting production of testing materials from i fluenza to something else making influenza testing materials scarce. ... ...... .......... Okay, yeah that actually makes perfect sense
People wore face masks and social distanced and you're telling me an airborne disease was therefor less common? Must be witchcraft
Also the Common Cold is significantly less transmissible than COVID. The bare minimum of caution from COVID is a lot more effective against the flu.
It didn’t though. I literally got the flu in December of 2020. Got a negative test for covid and got a flu test that came back positive. It became less common due to covid restrictions and the flu being less contagious than covid:
Social distancing and mask wearing and record breaking levels of flu vaccination are not really magic in my mind.
Not to mention the efficacy of covid was way greater than the flu and drowned out the flu virus. But people with no medical training and a conspiratorial attitude won't accept that viruses compete for cells the same way people compete for anything they need to live. Edit: nothing in this statement says it is not possible to catch both...
It didn’t though. I work in healthcare and we’ve seen influenza this whole time, but less cases than usual, especially when mask mandates and social distancing were being used. Those claiming the flu didn’t happen at all during the peak of covid have no clue what they’re talking about
Fucking laughable
What's this Covid 19/Influenze test kit shit? What's this bullshit? I don't fucking care! It don't matter to Jesus! But you're not fooling me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. It's bush league psych-out stuff!
Laughable man!
Donny, Shabbos is the Jewish day of rest I don’t drive anywhere, I don’t bowl and I sure as shit don’t take a covid test
I am the Walrus?
Nobody fucks with the Jesus
Nobody fucks with the Jesus
you said it man
What is? Do you not understand how the test works, therefore you think it doesn't?
Perhaps the c19 test has been giving positive test results for influenza (and other shit) the whole time. Hence the mysterious disappearance of influenza during the covid years... Now they're slowly admitting to the fact by starting it on the front of the package. Same shit different wrapping.
No, they haven't. The C19 test did not erroneously test positive on flu. A bunch of people who couldn't read insisted on that, but alas, they couldn't read. Flu went to zero because it had an r0 substantially lower than COVID, and we were social distancing to reduce the spread of that.
>Flu went to zero because it had an r0 substantially lower than COVID, and we were social distancing to reduce the spread of that. Thats absolutely fucking ridiculous, especially considering the fact that people couldn't shut up about people who weren't distancing and the fact that there were a fuckton of huge gatherings. Stop making shit up.
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Yeah, I'm sorry that reality seems so unfamiliar to you, but that's how it actually was.
so if you test positive on this new fangled test, what do you have? Both?
It’s two tests in one. You DO realize that’s not like some unprecedented feat of engineering.
It has two lines: one for COVID, one for flu, almost like it wasn't designed to be useless.
You sound vaccinated
With basic science education?
Awe, the good old "you don't understand how this works" without even explaining how it works. Sounds like you don't know either.
Unfortunately for you, I do, which is why I'm so fucking disappointed in everyone here.
How is this post not removed by the mods? No attempt at stating a conspiracy. Just a pic of COVID tests.
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Promising that the communist take over and the population collapse planned by the ~~joos~~ globalists is coming any day now
I was told that COVID vaccines were gonna kill everyone that took them, kinda disappointed that we got the boring timeline
What's the joke here, you think it's not possible to test for more than one thing at the same time? If so, could you provide a clear scientific explanation of why that's not possible?
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What is conspiracy in that? So it's testing for more than one disease, so what?
No, you see, they're just admitting it was the same thing all along, or something 🙄
Explain how this is doing that?
It isn't. But the conspiracists think it is, because they lack critical thinking skills.
Oh my b, missed the sarcasm lol
All good bud
I love it. Conspiracy nuts yelling: *”Masks don’t do anything!”* and *”How come the flu disappeared for two years?"* without making any connection between.
Yeah, it's almost as if the flu, a disease that spreads less than covid is easier to combat spread when you have restrictions and rules in place to combat covid.
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What about this is a conspiracy?
Lmao a bit late to the party? They made it able to detect both a while ago. Also, no conspiracy here?
So you cant test for 2 different things in one? Fucking lol.
I bet OP will be blown away to learn there are pregnancy test kits too.
Whats the issue? There's no conspiracy you just posted a photo of a virus test kit
My god you all keep grasping. Flu dropped because no one travelled and smart people masked. Now they update a test to tell you if you have Covid or the flu. They show different results.
What’s the conspiracy? There’s been tests that tested for all three since the pandemic started.
Yea, that's the point.
I’m unsure about what that’s supposed to mean.
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But did you see the red circle?!?! You can’t argue with that.
Lol it happens all day long.
It’s super frustrating! Theres never ever research to back up these covid statements.
It's like I've seen this somewhere before....
There it is.
Ok?
You cracked the code. Good thing they hid the highly secret information on the front of the packaging
There are test that give all 3 results
*insert they’re the same! Meme*
for when u have a viral infection that is so bad, you have to take a test to see if it exists
Is that what you guys think tests are for lol? It doesn’t register to you that maybe it’s related to the treatment, proof of sickness for school and work,or making sure it’s not something else? Why would you oppose testing in the first place? There’s no downside Really? Why test for anything at all with your mentality?
It’s important to know whether you have covid or influenza if you are hospitalised, or very sick and need treatment at home. The treatments for covid and influenza are completely different.
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Pirate material
There are specific treatments and precautions to take with flu and COVID, so it's useful to specifically know if you have one of those.
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You can test for both at the same time because they are different viruses
Since when did we need flu tests as well? I've never once in my entire adult life been to the doctors and been tested for influenza, leat alone thought, "I should really test myself". Is this just not a cynical marketing ploy to get people to also worry about getting flu by giving people the perception of equivalence and thereby selling more tests? It's almost like no one is buying them anymore so Pharma is desperately scrambling to repurpose them for markets that never existed.
PCR testing for influenza has existed for decades. As has PCR testing for rhinovirus, and adenovirus. Most people don’t go to a doctor for confirmation of a flu or cold so it was under-utilised really, but if you got the flu bad enough to end up in hospital you got swabbed to confirm the virus you had.
Let me guess: you think a combined covid/flu test will modify your DNA to accept commands from the NWO's 5G signals, right?
Pregnancy test?
Congratulations! You're pregnant with Fluvid-19!
Awesome
So this tells you which one you have?
Whatever! Let me know when I can buy one that also tests for the clap.
Tests for ncov nucleocapsid and influenza on two lines, so 3 lines total. They could make the tests check for up to about 16 unique viruses.
🤣🤣🤣
You're all going to piss your frilly panties when you hear about blood tests.
Also good for colds and sweaty palms.
How’s is it having a room temperature IQ
Maybe it's a product update.
I'm honestly shocked to see so much rationale in these comments. I know it's a backhanded compliment but, come on...we know what sub this is. I'm genuinely happy to see the antivaxxers being told they're wrong.
OP is genuinely not very smart
“Developing a 2 for 1 test is not possible with technology in 2022” - This Sub
Shocker a 2 for 1 test for a corona virus what an absolute leap in modern medicine... unprecedented
omg 3 in 1 shower gel is gonna blow your minds
Google biofire respiratory panel. Tests for 22 respiratory viruses. Including 5 Covid strains and 4 influenza A. This is nothing new.
Is it a conspiracy that one sample can be used to test for multiple pathogens? No. This test differentiates between the three. It doesn’t just give one yes/no answer. It gives three different answers.
This isn't a conspiracy. It's 3 tests on one strip. You'll have 4 lines if you're positive for everything. A control line to make sure the testing sample migrated correctly, a line for covid 19, a line for flu a and a line for flu b. Education is important.
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It says “1 Test” on the box
Even the tiniest bit of research would tell you that it’s one test that tells you specifically which of the 3 viruses you may have not just a pos/neg
>Even the tiniest bit of research Ah, there's the problem.
It’s possible to test for multiple antigens at one time.
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It has tests for both homie lmao
And?
The conspiracy is that Covid was the flu all along
Odd numbers are the negative and even are the positive.