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(0) We Need A FULL Audit Of America's Coronavirus Testing! Any test with a CT value of 30+ isn't really a true positive. 50-80% of the 6.75 million "positives" reported likely had a CT value of 30+ and neither the test subject nor the public is properly aware of this...
(1) The PCR testing is the primary method in the U.S to test for the virus. The cycle threshold (CT value) is the number of amplification cycles required for the fluorescent signal to cross a certain threshold. This allows very small samples of RNA to be amplified and detected.
(2) The higher the cycle number, the less RNA (viral load) there is in the sample. Here's where it gets scandalous. It's been well established that any score higher than 33 or even 30, really, is so insignificant, that the person with that high a CT value is perfectly fine and...
(3)...not contagious. So, why is that scandalous? The PCR testing uses a default value of 40 to diagnose when someone is "positive" when in a fact they're likely carrying around non shedding bits or even inert bits of the virus.
(4) This is one of the main reasons (aside from partial immunity) that so many people who are deemed "positive" have little to no symptoms. The CDC knows this. Fauci knows this.
(5) Health authorities know this. Yet we're counting and including all of these people as "positives" in the totals. there are a total of approximately 6.75 Million "positive" cases for coronavirus in the United States.
(6) Seeing that the current CT (cycle threshold) value is "40" for virtually every test, it's now clear that we should demand a complete audit of America's PCR testing so that we can determine how many of these cases had an initial cycle threshold of 30 or higher.
(7) Such an audit can obviously be done, and it can be done without compromising a single patient's privacy. Given it's significance, I can't imagine that the CT value not being automatically included with your PCR test, is just a simple and honest mishap of the system.
(8) "Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk"...
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(9) ..."They aren’t contagious at the time of the test and, therefore, do not need quarantining as their chance of infecting others is almost non-existent"...
..."set the figure at 30, or even less"...
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..."set the figure at 30, or even less"...
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(10) ..."SARS-CoV-2 Vero cell infectivity was only observed for RT-PCR Ct < 24"...
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(11) ..."Infectivity (defined as growth in cell culture) was significantly reduced when RT-PCR Ct values were over 24"...
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(12) ..."According to Fauci, the chances that the viral material detected is infectious or "replication competent" is miniscule and this threshold value can be interpreted to mean a patient is not contagious"...
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(13) ..."Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with Ct above 33 to 34 are not contagious"...
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(14) ..."A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less"...
Source: [link to http://www.nytimes.com (secure)]
Source: [link to http://www.nytimes.com (secure)]
Any test with a CT value of 30+ isn't really a true positive. 50-80% of the 6.75 million "positives" they are reporting likely had a CT value of 30+ and neither the test subject nor the public was aware of this. (Hat Tip: "Dr. Calhoun")
