Fact Check: Don’t trust this hoax video, rapid antigen tests are not pre-decided

According to a video being shared on social media, someone is trying to demonstrate that Covid testing kits are a sham. Going through the product literature of many rapid antigen test kits, India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found that the positive and negative control swabs are just for training and testing the efficacy of the kit. They are not used for testing of the actual samples.

What do you think testing laboratories do with your Covid samples before declaring you positive or negative? If you believe the latest conspiracy theory of anti-vaxxers, they just do ‘eenie meenie miney mo’ to declare your results. In a video being shared on social media, someone is trying to demonstrate that Covid testing kits are a sham. In the video, this person takes out a rapid antigen test kit and pulls out two different packets. On one packet is written “positive control” in red, while the other says “negative control” in green. He then starts humming a rhyme as his fingers move from one packet to another. In the end, he picks the packet with “positive control” and says something in a language we do not understand probably saying that he has chosen positive.