They are false positives in the sense that they are not meaningful (and when people test positive they assume it is relevant) but if the title needs tweaking in open for title suggestions.
BTW does this mean that the mortality rate as a percentage of true positives is actually higher?
If that’s how you’ll classify positives and mortality rate, sure, but generally it’s reflective of how many people were infected (IFR stands for Infection Fatality Rate) so no, these people would count as well.
When people test positive, even under those conditions, it’s relevant for 3 reasons
1) They don’t know if they can spread- they may be able to
2) They know that they have been infected, so there is a transmission chain somewhere among their prior contacts
3) They may have had a higher dose earlier (and infected others previously) or it may build into a higher dose later (and infect others later)
Honestly, we all knew many of the reported positives were picking up old non-viral particles- that has been reported on these forums extensively. However, that is NOT the case for the new positives we are seeing.
@Dan was onto this theory for quite a while.