“I think you have a very hazy understanding of RT-PCR machines, how they work and what commercial labs can do.”
I’ve been involved with PCR testing, as a patient, since 1999. I’m not an expert, but I think I am tolerably well informed.
For instance, I am aware that the man who invented the thing says that it was never intended for such an application, and is not suited for it.
Dr. Mullis was speaking in the context of viral load during the HIV “pandemic”. Not that the test wasn’t capable of detecting specific genetic material of a particular virus but that it couldn’t determine viral load or if a person was actually sick with the viral illness.
Because PCR testing will be positive for dead virus as easily as live virus. It simply detects the specific genetic material it’s been programmed to detect. The person may or may not be sick from it, or may be recovering from it.
In that sense he was quite correct. PCR cannot be used to detect clinical illness, it can only detect the genetic material of a pathogen. Actual illness must be diagnosed on clinical symptoms.
I believe he had a dust up with Fauci over this, because basically Fauci was pumping HIV case numbers just like he has done with Covid. Lots of asymptomatic “cases” means lots of funding.
PCR is a tool and like any tool, it can be abused in the service of greed and power.