After Two Years, CDC Head Admits PCR Tests Produce False Positives

Yet the guidance for quarantining and CDC’s case numbers was based on them all this time

Noting that PCR tests for COVID can stay positive for up to 12 weeks after infection, Walensky stated “we would have people in isolation for a very long time if we were relying on PCRs.”

Er yeah, that’s been happening for two years now.

It’s a startling admission given that, as pointed out by commentator Yossi Gestetner, case numbers and people having to isolate, cancel events and close businesses was all based on potentially false positives from oversensitive PCRs.

This means that for the past 21 months, people sat home for extra days and weeks because their test came back with an irrelevant positive. We didn’t know this 6, 12, 18 months ago? Really?

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 29, 2021

Hi @CDCDirector. Does the above mean that we don’t need a negative test 48-72 hours before flying into the US since fake/irrelevant positives can linger for 12 weeks?

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 29, 2021

In a separate interview, Walensky also admitted Wednesday that the agency’s latest guidance on COVID was based on what the government perceived people would accept.

“It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” Walensky starkly admitted.

CNN's @kaitlancollins: "It sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did the science."@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky: "It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate." pic.twitter.com/Ek3X3S7Q9S

— The Recount (@therecount) December 29, 2021

My niece “failed” a PCR test - she was immediately put on quarantine from her job for 14 days. My nephew was as well b/c he was married to someone who tested positive (even though his was negative).

Neither developed so much as a sniffle during that time and further tests all proved negative.

Both lost 14 days each of work - even though the quarantine time was paid, they were unhappy and angry.

Not that I have any confidence in PCR tests,,,, but let’s clarify exactly what the CDC is admitting.

I don’t think they are saying the test has too many false positives up front. I think they are saying that after recovery from the virus, the test keeps producing false positives for too long because it picks up bits of evidence of the virus well after you are recovered.

That’s what they’re trying to say, but the truth is, the PCR picks up the fragments that aren’t enough to get you sick on the front end, too.

A young friend of ours was working at a restaurant last year, summer of 2020. One person was sick so they tested him, and that person was positive for CoVid. So they had all of the workers tested, and our young friend tested positive but was never ever sick with any symptoms. His wife didn’t get it either. I think he was a false positive.

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