{"id":216371,"date":"2022-02-23T23:57:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fact-check-pcr-tests-diagnose-covid-19-aren-t-used-to-secretly-vaccinate-people"},"modified":"2022-02-23T23:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:57:38","slug":"fact-check-pcr-tests-diagnose-covid-19-aren-t-used-to-secretly-vaccinate-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fact-check-pcr-tests-diagnose-covid-19-aren-t-used-to-secretly-vaccinate-people","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: PCR tests diagnose COVID-19, aren&#8217;t used to secretly vaccinate people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The claim:&nbsp;Johns Hopkins University confirmed&nbsp;PCR tests can be used to vaccinate&nbsp;against COVID-19 A disinformation website is&nbsp;taking a 2020 press release out of context to falsely claim Americans may get vaccinated against COVID-19 without their knowledge. &#8220;Johns Hopkins University Confirms: You Can Be &#8216;Vaccinated&#8217; with a PCR Test, Even Without Knowing,&#8221; reads the title of the Feb. 16 article posted by the Centre for Research on Globalization, a Montreal-based group. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)&nbsp;tests are among the most accurate for diagnosing coronavirus cases. However, they have previously been the subject of misinformation online, where some have falsely claimed they&#8217;re inaccurate and confuse viruses . Despite the foreign domain, social media users&nbsp;in the U.S. have shared the link on Facebook and Twitter .&nbsp;&nbsp;In a 2020 report , the State Department characterized the Centre for Research on Globalization&nbsp;as a Russia-affiliated&nbsp;&#8220;source of anti-U.S. and anti-Western disinformation and propaganda.&#8221; Follow us on Facebook! Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins University did not confirm PCR tests can be used to vaccinate people without their knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[62,59,60,185,250,233],"class_list":["post-216371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-coronavirus","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-science","tag-vaccines","tag-virus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}