PCR Test: How reliable are they? Short video.
CANADA: May, 2021 Chief Microbiologist and Laboratory Specialist Dr. Jared Bullard was a witness for the government in the Manitoba court case, where the Government was to justify its restrictions on Charter rights and freedoms as being reasonable, necessary and beneficial. However, Dr. Bullard testified that determining whether or not a sample is actually infectious (containing a viable virus, capable of replicating) needs to be confirmed by lab culture. As noted, only 44% of the “positive” samples using a Ct of 18 returned a viable lab culture. Samples tested at a Ct of over 25, according to Dr. Bullard’s report, produced no viable lab cultures.
April 29, 2021 This tweet by former New York Times journalist, Alex Berenson, highlights the issue of Ct values being manipulated. The premise of asymptomatic spread is based on a positive PCR test. The has been no transparency on the Ct cycles in the last 14 months, despite many scientists calling the test into question. Why lower the cycles to less than 28 for only studying “breakthrough” infections after the vaccine?
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Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winning scientist from the US on the PCR test amplification cycles, retweeting lawyer Michael Sanger.
The New York Times article “Your Coronavirus Test is Positive. Maybe it Shouldn’t Be” on Aug 17, 2020 cites two experts:
“Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive,” agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said. “A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35”, she added.
Dr. Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of ge- netic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on.
The article goes on to say, “The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.”
PCR tests and Viral Load European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases volume 39, pages1059–1061(2020)
Note that the Percentage of Positive Culture at 36Ct is estimated at zero.
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10096-020-03913-9#Fig1
Interview with Kevin McKernan and Bobby Malhotra, two of the signatories of the Report Review of the Corman Drosten paper, that started the WHO and the whole world on PCR testing for Covid-19.
The Corman-Drosten Report Review on the Rt-PCR test
Canadian doctor, Kulvinder Kaur speaking out about the flawed PCR tests being used to illegally detained Canadian citizens.
Dr Pascal Sacré is a physician specialized in critical care, author and renowned public health analyst, Charleroi, Belgium. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). His article on the many issues with the PCR tests and using them to lockdown society. Feb 16, 2021
On Dec 14, The WHO put out updated instructions regarding “elevated risk for false SARS CoV2 results” with PCR tests used for detection of SARS CoV2. WHO put out another update stating similar instructions regarding Ct levels Jan 20, 2021.
The WHO recommended a “manual adjustment of the PCR positivity threshold to account for any background noise which may lead to a specimen with a high cycle threshold (Ct) value result being interpreted as a positive result” and providing the “Ct value in the report the requesting healthcare provider.” 1000s of doctors around the world have been calling attention to the high rate of false positives of the PCR test, specifically citing the values should not be over 25-30Ct.
https://www.who.int/…/14-12-2020-who-information-notice…
The amplification cycles in Canada, according the Journal of Clinical Virology are as follows(Vol 128, July 2020). Manitoba: 36.5 Quebec: 37
Minnesota State Rep. Mary Franson and Sen. Scott Jensen outline concerns about death certificates on ‘Fox & Friends.’ Interview on Dec 29, 2020
“Alberta’s top doctor is misleading public about COVID with irresponsible tweets” written by Lawyer John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
Expert Bashes BC for COVID-19 Data Gaps.
“The most problematic jurisdiction may be British Columbia,” Possamai writes. “Its publicly disclosed data has been incomplete, inconsistent and on occasion, seemingly contradictory.” Mario Possamai, a former senior advisor to the Ontario government’s SARS Commission, recently prepared the report A Time of Fear that found key lessons from that outbreak are being ignored by Canadian jurisdictions. The Tyee Dec 22, 2020
Rapid Response: Covid-19: Science, Conflicts and the Elephant in the Room Dr Eshani M King, Evidence Based Research in Immunology and Health, Tewkesbury, UK Nov 17, 2020
Asymptomatic Spread?
Asymptomatic Spread Revisited American Institute of Economic Research Article, November 22, 2021
Study posted in Nature regarding Asymptomatic Spread: Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
World Health Organization Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis Unit head Maria Van Kerkhove said coronavirus transmission by people who aren’t showing symptoms is “very rare.” Briefing in Geneva on June 8, 2020.
Dr. Fauci’s briefing, September 2020 “…historically people need to realize, even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks, the driver of an outbreak is always the symptomatic person. Even if there is a rare asymptomatic person that might transmit, an epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers”.
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