COVID-19 (Sars-Cov-2) Research

Now with so many countries requiring a Covid Neg. PCR test before getting on the plane, and some requiring it when you get of the plane (Canada), one has to wonder who makes these kits and how much money are they making from them, when from the beginning they were deemed as not a reliable way of detecting Sars-CoV-2.

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.

WHO Admits the PCR test results in too many false positives 

One Number Could Help Reveal How Infectious a COVID-19 Patient Is. Should Test Results Include It? by Robert F. Service Sep. 29, 2020 Science Magazine

• “The CT value isn’t an absolute scale,” says Marta Gaglia, a virologist at Tufts University…In a study published this week in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers led by Bernard La Scola, an infectious diseases expert at IHU-Méditerranée Infection, examined 3790 positive samples with known CT values to see whether they harbored viable virus, indicating the patients were likely infectious. La Scola and his colleagues found that 70% of samples with CT values of 25 or below could be cultured, compared with less than 3% of the cases with CT values above 35. “It’s fair to say that having a higher viral load is associated with being more infectious,” says Monica Gandhi, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.”

Appropriate use of PCR needed for a focused response to the pandemic

• “An article in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that among positive PCR samples with a cycle count over 35 – a common lab occurrence – only 3 percent of samples showed viral replication. Simply put, the cycle number next to the test is associated with the chances of infectiousness and should be available to the patient and the public. Thankfully, the WHO now explicitly recommends this.”

Lower Cases Imminent As WHO Drops The Charade Of Erroneous PCR Test Protocol

• “In case of virus detection, >35 cycles only detects signals which do not correlate with infectious virus as determined by isolation in cell culture [reviewed in 2]; if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the case in most laboratories in Europe & the US), the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%”

College of American Pathologists (CAP) Microbiology Committee Perspective: Caution Must Be Used in Interpreting the Cycle Threshold (Ct) Value

PCR Inventor: “It doesn’t tell you that you are sick”

• Dr Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the PCR process, was clear that it wasn’t meant as a diagnostic tool, saying… “with PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody.” And, commenting on cycle thresholds, once said: “If you have to go more than 40 cycles to amplify a single-copy gene, there is something seriously wrong with your PCR. PCR is just a process that allows you to make a whole lot of something out of something. It doesn’t tell you that you are sick, or that the thing that you ended up with was going to hurt you or anything like that.”
• note: The PCR kits instruct to use 30-35 CT. Canada was (may still be) using 45 cycle thresholds (CT). *ref. site still needed