where the brains at? wrote:
Harambe wrote:
Stopped reading after this.
Lol. I'm surprised you crazy lockdown nazis can read in the first place.
I thought it was common knowledge that the PCR is flawed?
Its also coming to light that this test, which they bank everything on, may give as high as 90% false positive results!!
Easy to find info on this and it explains the BS high rate of covid positives. Dr. Yeodon was also key advisor to Pfizer.
Yes, PCR tests for genetic material and not for intact virions. One of the big questions at the start of the pandemic was the infective period relative to the PCR-positive period.
Yes, I know it's a surprise, experts were aware of this in February!
PCR is quite sensitive and specific so the method itself isn't the issue. The problem arises mainly when you get a high Ct positive, indicating very little, yet detectable genetic material. This could be because the patient is in the early or late stages of infection and has a low viral load, or due to contamination and/or cross reactive and/or other things I'm not thinking of.
This doesn't mean that PCR is flawed, it just means that when you're conducting PCR surveillance of a relatively healthy population you have to be aware of the false positive rate. At anything above low single digit % positivity (maybe lower even, I haven't seen any reliable measurements of PCR FPs), this effect rapidly loses significance.
The article you linked discusses both the Philippines and the UK. The Philippines has a ~7.5% test positivity rate right now -- significantly higher than estimates of RT-PCR false positives.
The UK is at 4.5% but with a dramatic increase in the last few days. Again, that does not fit with a majority-false-positive explanation.
Unfortunately this seems to be one of those articles that refutes itself within days of being published. COVID deniers have a lovely track record of doing that, I'll admit