Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly said in a phone interview that he has been deliberately changing his public statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic because he didn’t think people were ready to hear his true beliefs, according to the New York Times.
Fauci has been slowly increasing the number of Americans he says need to be vaccinated for the U.S. to reach “herd immunity” in public statements, the New York Times reported Thursday morning. He reportedly told the Times he has done so “partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/24/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-herd-immunity/
Break it down for those of us who fell out of a stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
What is PCR and what is the significance of exceeding 27 cycles?
You are replicating the RNA or DNA in the sample that matches your primer. So if you replicate it enough, you can have a positive test while the person only has a few broken strands of genetic material that may have been encountered and broken down a while ago. You essentially artificially increased the signal beyond just detecting a threat to detecting something that is just “dead nucleotides.” Had you used fewer cycles, you would only call people positive if they had a larger starting amount of DNA/RNA. Basically what Fauci said. It’s funny how tells the truth at one time or in one venue, then lies in another.
Makes me think about the paper this clown wrote about the Spanish flu and bacterial pneumonia being the primary cause of death. How did that research never get brought up by him?
Huh...
So, if I am understanding this correctly, they are over testing and that over testing has deteriorated the material that is being tested, which has caused the test results to be inaccurate. Is that roughly correct?
Here’s a video from MIT showing how PCR works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQFnbcEsog
A different guy’s video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKeMiAZ8Zu4
Fauci PCR cycles: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A867t1JbIrs
The more cycles you run, the more you amplify the genetic material. Going over about 35 cycles (according to Fauci) makes the test too sensitive, which means you can find a bit of genetic material that matches a SARS-CoV-2 sequence, but which may simply be the result of a prior exposure, which has no clinical relevance.
Okay, thanks for the links. I guess I’ll be back once I have a better understanding then.
So PCR replicates DNA (in this case, it's RT-PCR or reverse transcriptase PCR since the COVID virus is RNA, but same principle). So, let's say there's one strand of the RNA in the sample. The process involves amplifying this one piece, so after one cycle, there are two, then after 2, there are four and so on. After 40 cycles, there can be a hell of a lot of pieces, making one look like a shit-ton.
Problem is, the enzyme used to amplify is not 100% correct, so errors can be made. So, after that many cycles, there could be a bunch of errors, mucking up the results.
Interesting, updoot for the knowledge!