As to mRNA technology, it is also my understanding it has been around for well over a decade and never found to be of any use. Holds a lot of promise in theory but so far (maybe) not in practice. It bothers me a lot this rush and oodles of money to push the vaccines and very little energy or money to study potential treatments. Vaccines won’t help people already infected.
As for “lab rats that survive” it is my understanding that the lab rats used in trials are almost always killed for research purposes at some point. Maybe you mean that some died from the experimental vaccines and some did not. But they eventually get examined for development of tumors and such.
I have heard about these stories of motor oil and tropical fruits testing positive but not sure how real that is. We’ve seen a lot of inconsistencies, poorly designed studies and corner cutting and ‘working assumptions’ the last year - hard to know if we are really comparing apples to apples. As you said there are many different ways to test. If it is true the more common tests are just looking for a specific genetic sequence then I suppose that it is possible for this sequence to exist on its own regardless of the presence of the virus. And would it hold that potentially a virus could mutate so it no longer expresses that exact same gene sequence? Or the inverse, that other viruses might mutate and show this same sequence?
:: Holds a lot of promise in theory but so far (maybe) not in practice. ::
Let’s ask President Trump, shall we?
He says, “Regeneron is a miracle therapy.”
If it is true the more common tests are just looking for a specific genetic sequence
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A link at the top about the PCR explains that it looks for sequences of compounds (not genes) which can be found in fruit, Coca Cola, motor oil etc.