After a round of campus-wide COVID-19 testing that began the week of Oct. 18, the College of William and Mary alerted students Sunday, Nov. 1 that 19 students received false-positive results. The affected students were contacted by the College’s case managers and subjected to quarantine protocols. Though the results have been confirmed to be false positives, the students will remain in isolation housing until they have been cleared by a case manager.
In an email to the campus community, COVID-19 Response Team Chair Sam Jones said that the positive results appeared to be outliers when compared to the results of census testing and ongoing wastewater testing. Jones noted that over 20 positive tests yielded from this round of testing did not align with the number of positives yielded from the two previous rounds of campus-wide testing. The College requested that both Kallaco Health and Technology and Wisconsin Diagnostics Laboratories perform integrity reviews of the tests. It was determined that Kallaco accurately reported the data it received from Wisconsin Diagnostics. Ultimately, Wisconsin Diagnostics announced that 19 of the tests were reported as false positive as a result of a lab error. The 19 tests were repeated using the original specimens and all yielded negative results. Read the full story by The Flat Hat HERE.
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