The COVID-19 tests used by hundreds of senators, representatives, staff, and reporters on Capitol Hill every day has a “risk of false results, particularly false negative results,” according to the Food and Drug Administration.

In a Monday warning to patients and healthcare providers, the FDA alerted that Curative’s real-time RT-PCR test yielding false positives could lead to “delayed or lack of supportive treatment, lack of monitoring of infected individuals and their household or other close contacts for symptoms resulting in increased risk of spread of COVID-19 within the community, or other unintended consequences.”