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1/ A fascinating @JAMA_current paper today offers yet more proof that the PCR testing scheme vastly overstates the number of people with coronavirus infections...
The authors ran PCR tests on 176 RECOVERED #Covid patients 4 to 11 weeks post-diagnosis... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7570?guestAccessKey=26a817a5-2e73-4c00-9fc8-42493feb1b6e&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamainternalmedicine&utm_content=olf&utm_term=111220
The authors ran PCR tests on 176 RECOVERED #Covid patients 4 to 11 weeks post-diagnosis... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7570?guestAccessKey=26a817a5-2e73-4c00-9fc8-42493feb1b6e&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamainternalmedicine&utm_content=olf&utm_term=111220
2/ They found 32 (18%) tested POSITIVE for #sarscov2. Sounds bad.
But 31 of the 32 were positive at PCR thresholds of 30 or higher. And not one of those patients had replicative (live) virus. The only patient with live virus was the one with the lowest PCR cycle threshold...
But 31 of the 32 were positive at PCR thresholds of 30 or higher. And not one of those patients had replicative (live) virus. The only patient with live virus was the one with the lowest PCR cycle threshold...
3/ In other words, 97 percent of these patients had no live virus in their bodies despite a positive PCR test - and they were 18 percent of ALL the people surveyed (though they were not a random sample - they had had the virus before).
And that's how you make a #casedemic.
And that's how you make a #casedemic.
4/ BTW: I said "coronavirus infections" in the first tweet. It is more accurate (I was up against the 280 character limit) to say "active coronavirus infections/exposures." Unless there is contamination, the positive result suggests the patient has viral shards in his body...
