Misunderstanding. I am talking about declaration of infection, dead or alive.
The initial CDC stuff was about reducing workload investigating breakthroughs that were Covid positive at higher cycle counts. They said not to submit reports unless Covid positive at lower (27) cycle count.
But then it appeared that non vaccinated people could be declared Covid positive with cycle counts above 28.
This is just wrong. Don’t have to suspect any sort of conspiracy. It’s just wrong to have different cycle count definitions for vaccinated vs unvaccinated, whether dead or alive.
Link: hmmm
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html
Scroll down to the reqmt for CT of <28. 30 and 35 have been used as a norm before now.
Agreed. Cycle count should be the same regardless of vaccination status. I seem to remember 25 amplification cycles for the most common test found about 99% of clinically significant cases. Anyone who is negative at 28 cycles but positive at 30 or 35 is almost certainly a false positive, regardless of vaccination or previous infection status. You might have a tiny amount of dead viral RNA in you that your immune system already killed, but that is not clinically significant.