Wait, so the infection rate is off by an order of 10? Always has been.
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Got one in non-chronological time?
For de-chronological. Read it from the bottom up. 😉.
Labs in the United States were using a Ct of 37-40. Epidemiologists interviewed in August 2020 said a Ct of around 30 was probably more appropriate. This means the CDC’s COVID-19 test standards for the PCR test would pick up an excessive number of false positives. The Times report noted that the CDC’s own data suggested the PCR did not detect live virus over a Ct of 33. The reporter also noted that clinicians were not receiving the Ct value as part of the test results. Yet a PCR test instruction document from the CDC that had been revised five times as of July 13, 2020 still specified testing and interpretation of the test using a Ct of 40.
In August of last year, The New York Times published an article stating that as many as 90% of COVID-19 tests in three states were not indicative of active illness. In other words, they were picking up viral debris incapable of causing infection or being transmitted because the cycle threshold (Ct) of the PCR testing amplified the sample too many times.
Shortly before the New York Times article was published, the CDC revised its COVID-19 test recommendations, saying that only symptomatic patients should be tested. The media went insane, and Dr. Fauci went all over television saying he was not part of the decision to change the testing standards.
On September 28, 2020, a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases from Jaafar et al. had asserted, based on patient labs and clinical data involving nearly 4,000 patients, that a Ct of 30 was appropriate for making public policy. Yet, an update to the CDC instructions for PCR testing from December 1, 2020, still uses a Ct of 40.
Jan 2021, within an hour of Joe Biden being inaugurated and signing an executive order mandating masks on all federal property, the WHO sent out a notice to lab professionals using the PCR test. This translates to “in the absence of symptoms, a high Ct value means you are highly unlikely to become ill or get anyone else sick in the absence of very recent exposure to an infected person.
This information was out there last Spring, but they deliberately chose not to listen.
My Lefty Sister, an actual medical doctor, just weeks ago tried to tell me that there was no such thing as a False Positive PCR test.
Having done consulting work for a saliva testing company, I am very familiar with the fact that 99.8% accuracy is considered the very rare gold standard in testing. There are ALWAYS false positives.
I work in tv where everyone has to be constantly tested, and the company does not believe in false positives even though we see them.
I had a cast member who tested negative, positive, negative, negative in the span of 5 days. Guess what, we still had to treat the positive as a positive even though it was clearly a false positive. Ridiculous.