claim: coronavirus. anche il kiwi positivo alla covid19? lo strano esperimento sui tamponi rapidi che disinforma
summary: a video on youtube showing that a quick swab test gave a positive results when carried out on a kiwi was used to claim that the official coronavirus statistics have gone up since this kind of tests are unreliable and are being used to count the official number of people testing positive. this is not true as in italy only pcr tests are used official statistics, and it is actually well known that test results are unreliable when not performed on people but, for instance, on fruit such as that in the video
subject_description: video suggesting that quick swab tests for coronavirus are the cause official coronavirus statistics have gone up, as they are no effective diagnosis procedure and seem to detect coronavirus on everything (even kiwis, since an experiment on a kiwi is carried out in the video)
Motive_Description: claim that the coronavirus epidemic is not as serious as it seems, given that test are unreliable to and tend to overdetect it
author_description: massimo mazzucco
keywords: coronavirus, italy, quick, swab, test, unreliable, statistics, kiwi