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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
PCR testing has been abused during the pandemic with high cycle thresholds routinely used to inflate the 'case' count with meaningless positives. Nonetheless, it should not be doubted that PCR detects SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
A major review led by Jon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, has concluded lateral flow tests are too inaccurate to be used in mass screening in schools and workplaces.
In the week that all students returned to school, only 0.06% of rapid Covid tests produced positive results. But how many of these were false positives, and how many families were forced to isolate as a result?
Mass testing in schools as children returned this week is resulting in hundreds of positives – but viral prevalence is now so low that the large majority of them are wrong and result in children and their contacts isolating needlessly.
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