Posted on 11/09/2020 10:22:35 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
In newly resurfaced video from July, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to acknowledge that large numbers of positive COVID-19 cases may arise from oversensitive tests that pick up mere fragments of the virus rather than active, viable infections.
If true, many patients may have been receiving false-positive test results — causing much needless anxiety and disruption to everyday life — while the numbers of COVID-19 cases reported by public health authorities and major COVID tracking websites could be vastly overstated.
The admission came on a July 16 episode of This Week in Virology, a longtime science podcast hosted by Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had joined the program to discuss various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including testing.
Concerns have been raised over the last several months that laboratory tests widely deployed to detect SARS-Cov-2 — what are known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests — may in fact be picking up remnants of the virus instead of meaningful levels of infection. Some critics have argued that significant numbers of purportedly positive COVID-19 tests are actually not infectious at all.
At the center of the debate is the "cycle threshold" at which a PCR test operates. PCR tests work by multiplying a virus fragment over a series of cycles until it can reliably detect and confirm the virus within a sample...
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PCR false positives.
many also response with false positive to the
common cold.
others give an odious positive because the test kits
CONTAIN coronavirus.
but what give FauXi his patent royalties.
It is HIS virus, and the CDC’s virus.
to THEM go all money, fame, and glory.
to THEM should go jail and worse.
Never said this before the election.
Don’t be fretful, citizens. President BiteMe is going to make everybody where a mask 24x7 and all will be well.
That's the problem...we don't know how many people have had it.
This is nothing new about PCR tests.
"If true, many patients may have been receiving false-positive test results — causing much needless anxiety and disruption to everyday life — while the numbers of COVID-19 cases reported by public health authorities and major COVID tracking websites could be vastly overstated."
"The admission came on a July 16 episode of This Week in Virology, a longtime science podcast hosted by Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had joined the program to discuss various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including testing."
"Concerns have been raised over the last several months that laboratory tests widely deployed to detect SARS-Cov-2 — what are known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests — may in fact be picking up remnants of the virus instead of meaningful levels of infection. (Emphasis mine)
Some critics have argued that significant numbers of purportedly positive COVID-19 tests are actually not infectious at all."
At the center of the debate is the "cycle threshold" at which a PCR test operates.
PCR tests work by multiplying a virus fragment over a series of cycles until it can reliably detect and confirm the virus within a sample.
The more cycles a test must go through before it detects the virus, the smaller and weaker the original sample was.
Google - MATH+ PROTOCOL for covid
Dr. Paul Marik has been saying this, that the most contagious phase is the incubation phase and by the time someone is symptomatic, the virus is dying. The REAL sickness, trouble breathing comes when the patient’s body has gone into overdrive to kill the covid and leaves all the gunk behind in the lungs.
The problem is that there is no standard definition of quantity of viral filaments to be found in the testing procedure.
Therefore you might not have the virus now, perhaps even months ago even had the virus and were asymptomatic,
and now you test positive (?).
Let's say, as a politician wants a plague, for whatever reason,
you have the testing procedure adjust and lower the number of viral filaments to be found in a testing procedure an not determine whether alive or long-dead,
and voila, you can have your plague and your authoritarian regime in power.
Immoral and unethical -..yup,..you bet !
The test discerns filaments, not whether they are alive , or long dead.
This has been known for some time now.
Course, the media won’t cover it, but what they need to do is not push the test so hard.
Figure out what level they need to get to to find out if someone is contagious and test to that.
Don’t keep testing until they are finding mere fragments of a virus, which may not even be COVID, in someone who is not infectious.
That's what it is for a number of viruses.
If you were contagious only after you were sick, then you could quarantine and stop the spread of the disease.
But if you are contagious before you show symptoms, then the disease can spread easily.
Not just false positives.
Non-infectious true positives.
NYS, BTW, counts repeat positives of the same patient as new positives.
Handy, that.
Three guesses why labs are refusing to make the info on which Ct threshold they use easily available to medicos and consumers.
What is worse, the medical community have known about this testing inconsistency since 7/16/2020 !
As stated in the Original posting article:
"The admission came on a July 16 episode of This Week in Virology, a longtime science podcast hosted by Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello."
This brings the pandemic statistics into reality, where only positive covid-19 tested cases in hospital,
represent the true infection "hot spots".
As we are entering into the influenza season, there will be increased confusion as to the rate of covid-19 infection with seasonal influenza.
Previously, this is a 'novel' virus, and we are still learning more about it's specific peculiarities as time goes on.
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NO ONE knew about the facets of this virus.
It was open bio warfare by China.
All these comments are like trying to put the hoop over the poss at the local carnival. You miss alot more than you succeed.
Fauci & his ilk are even more suspect due to the fact that Fauci & Bill Gates have multiple patents on yet to be created vaccines....
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