These Researchers Tested Positive. But the Virus Wasn’t the Cause. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/health/coronavirus-testing-lab-contamination.html
Des chercheurs se sont retrouvés positifs après avoir été contaminés non pas par le #SARS-CoV-2 mais par le matériel génétique (du même virus) sur lequel il travaillait.
Dr. Wannier is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of the Harvard geneticist George Church, one of many scientists conducting research on the coronavirus’s genes — harmless hunks of molecules that pose no infectious threat. Unfortunately for three members of the Church lab, those genes also happened to be the target of a widely used coronavirus test, made by the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., that Dr. Wannier and two colleagues took the week of June 15 as part of their university’s routine screening regimen. Unaware of the virus genes in or on their bodies, the three had inadvertently tricked the test into identifying them as infected.
