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Neither outbreaks, nor detection tests, nor massive use of masks ... The dean of the College of Biologists of the Basque Country, Jon Ander Etxebarria , has just published a controversial report in which he criticizes a large part of the measures that are being taken against the Covid-19 epidemic. The document, already widely disseminated by the deniers of the pandemic, has made other professionals in Biology and Infectious Diseases shout to the sky and warn of how biased and incorrect the opinions it pours are.

"The reflections of the dean of the Euskadi College of Biologists are a rather worrying hodgepodge of half-truths, errors and misinterpretations . I am also a biologist and he does not represent me," said, for example, the microbiologist and scientific communicator Ignacio López-Goñi on your twitter account.

Etxebarria maintains, for example, that the PCR test, the tool that is used mainly to diagnose infection, should not be used as a guide to de-escalation at this time of the pandemic since at least 50% of the results it produces "are false positives, "he says. However, scientific evidence says the opposite, that the test - which detects the presence of the virus RNA in the body - can yield false negatives, but not positives.

The dean also affirms that asymptomatic patients are not contagious (although there are many studies that show otherwise), that "what is being considered regrowth is not such, since the hospitalized and deceased are much lower than those who, with numbers of similar positive cases, occurred in dates of the month of May "- although in reality the hospitalizations have already multiplied by four in the last month - or that the generalized use of masks in the public sphere is not a good recommendation.

In addition, it also suggests that shortening the timeframes for vaccine development can carry significant risks.

In his references, Etxebarria mentions a video on Youtube of a group of COVID-19 deniers and equates it to scientific sources.

Numerous doctors, biologists and scientists from different branches have criticized his postulates on the networks.

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