Testing
1 Testing Overview
"System and Method for Testing for COVID-19 "
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200279585A1/en
"Current COVID-19 tests can’t always detect the delta variant."
2 Testing Ineffectiveness
PCR test phased out end 2021, does not distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza: "CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses."
Source: 07/21/2021: Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
"In light of our re-examination of the test protocol to identify SARS-CoV-2 described in the Corman-Drosten paper we have identified concerning errors and inherent fallacies which render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless."
Source: External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results
CDC lowers PCR testing threshold to 28 cycles due to 85-90% false positive rate: "In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found."
Source: New York Times, Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be., August 29, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx'd
COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/
Making something out of nothing: PCR tests, CT values and false positives"
PCR test EUA revoked by the CDC as it cannot discriminate between a covid infection and a flu infection
Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing, July 21, 2021
Kary Mullis: PCR Test Inventor Calls Anthony Fauci a Fraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWN_PJ8t2o
PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic
https://brownstone.org/articles/pcr-tests-and-the-rise-of-disease-panic/
PCR instructions revised at least 5 times between beginning of pandemic and July 13, 2020
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
https://web.archive.org/web/20200713233950/https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
WHO warns of 'false positives' in COVID tests, says some patients might not be 'truly infected'
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05
MIT confirms: its own COVID19™ tests are set to 40 amplification cycles.
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/11/was-my-pcr-test-result-false-positive
University of Cambridge found 100% false positives during one full testing cycle across ~4000 students
https://adapnation.io/cambridge-uni-exposes-the-extent-of-false-positives/
Elon Musk: "Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327125840040169472?lang=en
Tanzania: President Says Faulty ‘Imported’ Test Kit Claimed Goat Had Coronavirus
Austrian MP performs live PCR test in Parliament; Coca Cola tests positive for COVID
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/292952
Anthony Fauci on CDC changing test guidelines: “I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/fauci-coronavirus-cdc-testing/index.html
Anthony Fauci: “if you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more that the chances of it being replication competent are minuscule…you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle. So I think if somebody comes in there with 37/38 even 36 you gotta say it’s just dead nucleotides period.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A867t1JbIrs
New York Times: "In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found."
"Most tests set the limit at 40";
"Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at UC, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,”
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be, August 29, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
Australian group of lawyers: "Covid19 tests are unreliable to test any specific disease"
https://concernedlawyersnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6.11.20-CLN-TO-GOVTS-LETTER.pdf
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