Since the beginning of the health crisis, a lot of fake news about Covid-19 has emerged on social media. On Telegram, a video of a man has gone viral: He claims that the swabs used for PCR tests in the UK are carcinogenic. Truth or Fake?
We already knew about the fruits that tested positive to Covid-19 and swabs that were allegedly "alive".
For this episode of Truth or Fake, Catherine Bennett from FRANCE 24 Observers got out his chemistry books to verify a claim seen more than 250,000 times on Telegram. According to the man in the video, the PCR self-tests available in the UK contain a dangerous carcinogenic (ie potentially cause cancer) substance. As you'll see, the answer is more complex than it seems.
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