While the test can indicate if a person has the virus present in their body, it cannot say if it is at an infectious stage or how likely it is to be passed on.
FWIW and it is anecdotal, when I was tested my doctor said they were getting a lot of false positives with the “quick tests” and that many people exhibited no symptoms even when they were “high risk.” My clinic stopped using the PCR tests for that reason and went with the slower and more accurate test.
I know two people who tested positive that should have exhibited symptoms and infected others who lived with them who were vulnerable, but they did not.
I know a middle-aged person who was positive that was very sick.
There are definitely issues with the testing and the labs doing the testing. The anti-body test should demonstrate this?
TN Woman Who Died 6 Months Ago Receives Letter Claiming She Has Virus ... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/04/tennessee-woman-who-died-6-months-ago-receives-letter-claiming-she-has-coronavirus/
The way the statistics on this have been intentionally distorted for political purposes is almost beyond belief. My brother-in-law who was on hospice care for an aggressive inoperable brain tumor was counted as a “presumptive Covid death” back in March by CDC guidelines.
I worked as the officer in charge of a Hazmat Team for many years. We had equipment that could find traces of chemicals that were insignificant because the amounts were so tiny. It was almost an art form to interprit the results. The problem is that the results could be twisted to fit whatever preconceived notion that the operator had. It is the same with these Covid statistics... once politics became entangled in this situation all of the statistics became basically meaningless.
My wife is a retired nurse and department head; I worked in EMS as a firefighter in a big city department riding to the hospital countless times in the back of a rescue unit with sick and dying people. Since January 21 when the first Covid case was announced here in Washington State, neither of us has personally met anyone who has tested positive or been sick from Covid-19. Her brother who was on hospice care for an inoperable agressive cancerous brain tumor was labled a “presumptive Covid-19 death” but that was our first clue that the statistics were already being skewed for political purposes.
Dear Dr. Fauci....Betting you knew this and any surge in testing would produce those magnificaent numbers you were hoping for.
Before April 2020 molecular tests could only be called pos if at least 2xmarkers were pos. Too many false pos in molecular testing.
The fda changed that for covid. If the non specific target is pos.. you still have covid.
Funny how weekly changes are happening close to the election.
Detectable is not infectable. Just running up the pos rate.
Fauci=Enemy of the US
On Shadow government payroll.
Soros assests in US need to be frozen.
Gates too, for that matter.
PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction. Its sensitivity is due to the fact that it can replicate a strand of RNA or DNA an infinite number of times. (That’s how they get DNA from tiny spots at crime scenes, for example.)
Our problem is that no test currently available can tell us whether a “positive” test of the virus is infectious or just a dead piece. That is leading to quarantines of perfectly healthy and probably not infectious people for months, and other possibly unnecessary precautions.
Contributing to this is we don’t know what is the minimally infectious dose of live virus. We can only get indirect evidence, which suggests somewhere between greater than one and less than that for measles. (Unless someone wants to be a guinea pig.)
***I*** am one of those who had to exit work for 14 days b/c of a protein from the freaking virus that I had gotten 4 months before the test! I also tested positive for antibodies on the same day, coincidentally.
“skewing real picture of how many people are contagious”
That helps the Democrats opining about how badly Pres. Trump is handling the Covid-19 outbreak.
One of my co-worker’s wives made the mistake of getting a second test at the end of her quarantine after testing positive and it too was positive. That’s when her doctor told her she could still show positive for a couple months. She was upset because her workplace required her to quarantine another two weeks because of the second test.
They have not isolated a “Covid 19” virus. The PCR test identifies some proteins found in corona viruses (and other inert materials). It is inappropriate to use this test for diagnosis purposes:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/
Using Testing to Control the Population , it must stop
Not to mention how people NEVER EVEN TESTED end up receiving POSITIVE for China Flu results.
We know of four people, in our area of Texas, who’ve had this happen.
Multiply that all of the state, and, all across the country.
Enough of this ShamDEMic sham show.
They all need to be held accountable for every death, injury, destroyed item, cost, and losses people have suffered at their hand.
Every day we see more conjured up BS testing “results.” Anyone who believes any of this BS is a flaming moron.
That way they get the “case” numbers up, and the “Covid deaths” up as well, and scare us all to death.
I have been told people making an appointment for testing, never took the test received mail they tested positive. Something fishy going on in testing.