Stop mass testing
I’ve argued for some time that the pandemic has long passed & the route back to normality is simple: cease pointless & error prone mass testing of the population (test properly in hospital). As soon as we stop mass testing, we lose the mass false positives & life restarts.
Belgium reduced their testing. R rate plummets as a direct results. Deaths too.
Yardley Yeadon
https://twitter.com/MichaelYeadon3/status/1326644732940984337
Look What's Coming!
(see above post 'Stop mass testing' for context)
“Mass-Covid testing scheme adopted in Liverpool will be rolled out across 67 authorities, Hancock reveals (so, is your town one of them?)” – Even though it only found 0.7% infection rate in Liverpool. The Mail reports on the next phase of Operation Moonshine that will cost a staggering £40bn.
We're testing healthy people to declare them unwell whilst refusing to threat actual sick people.
Incredibly accurate.
Guess who the so called excess deaths are?
Our relatives & maybe some of us. Restricting access to the NHS for eight months does that.
Yardley Yeadon
https://twitter.com/MichaelYeadon3/status/1327385943351943168
Yet more proof that the PCR testing scheme vastly overstates the number of people with coronavirus infections.
Alex Berenson
A fascinating paper today offers yet more proof that the PCR testing scheme vastly overstates the number of people with coronavirus infections/exposures.
The authors ran PCR tests on 176 RECOVERED #Covid patients 4 to 11 weeks post-diagnosis.
Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Test Results Among Patients Who Recovered From COVID-19 With Prior.
This study examines positive real-time polymerase chain reaction nasal-oropharyngeal swab results from patients who recovered from COVID-19 with prior negative results.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7570
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.
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.
Cant see anything surprising there. People shed viral fragments for weeks or months after recovery and the test detects viral fragments.
PCR cannot detect viable virus vs fragments.
But theres also a problem the other way. Depending when genes/sequences a test uses, some of the later lineages have mutations that can increase the cT by 5 needed to detect RNA (ie false negatives)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.25.265074v1.full
