New York Times Finds 90% of Positive PCR Tests for COVID May Have Been False

[ColonelAngus]

Many COVID positives were THE FLU.

That is why the flu “went away” for 3 years and now is back.

THE TEST ARE FOR VIRAL LOAD, NOT SPECIFIC STRAINS OF VIRUS.

POSITIVE FLU WAS COUNTED AS POSITIVE COVID.

DERP. You cultists know this…your TDS is so severe you participated in a mass human trial of an untested experimental gene therapy shot.

 

[ColonelAngus]

FTR, the “New York Times” could have figured this put a long time ago. That POS RAG is 100% complicit in the COVID HOAX. The reaction of the government to COVID was magnitudes of order more severe than needed…it was a money and power grab.

All of you vilifying IVERMECTIN, yet you take OZEMPIC for WEIGHT LOSS are lying bags of garbage.

NO OFF LABEL SCRIPTS…REMEMBER?

 

[Lesh]

FTR, the “New York Times” could have figured this put a long time ago. That POS RAG is 100% complicit in the COVID HOAX. The reaction of the government to COVID was magnitudes of order more severe than needed…it was a money and power grab.

All of you vilifying IVERMECTIN, yet you take OZEMPIC for WEIGHT LOSS are lying bags of garbage.

NO OFF LABEL SCRIPTS…REMEMBER?

Ivermectin is not denigrated because it was off label. It was denigrated because it does nothing.

And taking Ozembic. For weight loss is stupid

 

[ColonelAngus]

Cult, you know you fucked up.

Thats why the most recent booster has less than a 10% take rate.

WHAT HAPPENED, CULT? WHY DID YOU STOP GETTING BOOSTED? DID YOU “DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH”?

 

[ColonelAngus]

Cult, for real…I am laughing at you.

The utter stupidity is off the charts.

DO NOT DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

 

[munkle]

Cult, you know you fucked up.

Thats why the most recent booster has less than a 10% take rate.

WHAT HAPPENED, CULT? WHY DID YOU STOP GETTING BOOSTED? DID YOU “DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH”?

Covid cult ask yourself, if they lied to you about the PCR tests AND KNEW THEY WERE LYING, what else were they lying about? "Safe and effective?" You really effed yourselves. Then wished death on all who resisted. The planet will be cleansed of you in 5 years as you blow away like grains of sand and STILL you will believe it is "climate change" or "long covid." Just LOL.

NBC News: US Government Vaccine Injury Program Overwhelmed by COVID Vaccine Injury Claims

Data sources for above charts 1, 2, 3,  4.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Cult, what was the moment you realized you were duped?

You can recover from your stupidity, but not from the experimental gene therapy shots you took because of your TDS.

Shrewd!!

 

[ColonelAngus]

Well, COVID CULT, at least you cantake solace in the fact that you had no idea. Of course no one should ever do their own research. Also, no one was saying we are overreacting to COVID…so how could you know?

No possible way for you to determine what is best for your body…you had to take many many many shots.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

If you were "right" about all of this stuff, why did over 1.2 million Americans die. Why are 50,000 people still dying every year from covid. MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

IF YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING WHY ARE SO AMERICANS DEAD??????

Because that many people die every fucking year. Covid didn’t increase the mortality rate at all. It was exactly the same as it’s been forever. You just had hospitals labeling everything covid so they could bill the higher rates. Gun shot victims were labeled covid deaths for fuck sakes.

 

[Lesh]

Because that many people die every fucking year. Covid didn’t increase the mortality rate at all. It was exactly the same as it’s been forever. You just had hospitals labeling everything covid so they could bill the higher rates. Gun shot victims were labeled covid deaths for fuck sakes.

Nope

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Nope

Yep. The number is going up with boomers who are the largest generation reaching the end of their lives. Had nothing to do with the kung flu.

 

[ColonelAngus]

The cult refuses to share their AHA moment.

Why is that?

Why did they stop getting boosted?

 

[luiza]

Because that many people die every fucking year. Covid didn’t increase the mortality rate at all. It was exactly the same as it’s been forever. You just had hospitals labeling everything covid so they could bill the higher rates. Gun shot victims were labeled covid deaths for fuck sakes.

You simply have no inkling about the science and maths behind Excess Deaths .
Ed Dowd has made himself a leading world authority using official national data as his source .

Deniers and Gullibles beware.
Dowd shouts it loud

 

[Billiejeens]

Did anyone bother to read the links?

The thread title is bullshit

It is adorable how much you love and protect your Cult.

 

[Dragonlady]

Cult, you know you fucked up.

Thats why the most recent booster has less than a 10% take rate.

WHAT HAPPENED, CULT? WHY DID YOU STOP GETTING BOOSTED? DID YOU “DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH”?

50,000 Americans died of covid last year. In large part because Americans continue to refuse vaccination.

Of course, most of them are Republicans so there's fewer of them left to make bad decisions.

 

[Weatherman2020]

This is the famous (pay-walled) NYT article never reported anywhere but the Internet, and even there it is hard to find. Your best bet is search engine Yandex.

The FDA gave no guidance on PCR threshold settings. This was left up to states and local health authorities.

The number of new cases was the top of the news every day. On these, lockdowns, isolation policies, and controversial treatments like Remdesivir were based.

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New York Times Finds 90% of Positive PCR Tests for COVID May Have Been False

This is the famous NYT article known to all anti-COVID vaxers but never reported anywhere but the Internet, and even there it is hard to find. Your best bet is search engine Yandex. The FDA gave no…

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Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

By Apoorva Mandavilli
Published Aug. 29, 2020
Updated July 3, 2021

"Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But researchers say the solution is not to test less, or to skip testing people without symptoms, as recently suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Instead, new data underscore the need for more widespread use of rapid tests, even if they are less sensitive.

“The decision not to test asymptomatic people is just really backward,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, referring to the C.D.C. recommendation.


“In fact, we should be ramping up testing of all different people,” he said, “but we have to do it through whole different mechanisms.”

In what may be a step in this direction, the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would purchase 150 million rapid tests.

The most widely used diagnostic test for the new coronavirus, called a PCR test, provides a simple yes-no answer to the question of whether a patient is infected.

But similar PCR tests for other viruses do offer some sense of how contagious an infected patient may be: The results may include a rough estimate of the amount of virus in the patient’s body.

“We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,” Dr. Mina said. “We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.”



But yes-no isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. “It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,” Dr. Mina said.


The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.

This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.


One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus.

Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said.

Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said.

A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on.


“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests, that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” one virologist said.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The Food and Drug Administration said in an emailed statement that it does not specify the cycle threshold ranges used to determine who is positive, and that “commercial manufacturers and laboratories set their own.”


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is examining the use of cycle threshold measures “for policy decisions.” The agency said it would need to collaborate with the F.D.A. and with device manufacturers to ensure the measures “can be used properly and with assurance that we know what they mean.”

The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.

For example, North Carolina’s state lab uses the Thermo Fisher coronavirus test, which automatically classifies results based on a cutoff of 37 cycles. A spokeswoman for the lab said testers did not have access to the precise numbers.

This amounts to an enormous missed opportunity to learn more about the disease, some experts said.

“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests — that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York.


“It would be useful information to know if somebody’s positive, whether they have a high viral load or a low viral load,” she added.

Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 872 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles.

With a cutoff of 35, about 43 percent of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 63 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30.

In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said.

Other experts informed of these numbers were stunned.

“I’m really shocked that it could be that high — the proportion of people with high C.T. value results,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “Boy, does it really change the way we need to be thinking about testing.”


Dr. Jha said he had thought of the PCR test as a problem because it cannot scale to the volume, frequency or speed of tests needed. “But what I am realizing is that a really substantial part of the problem is that we’re not even testing the people who we need to be testing,” he said.

The number of people with positive results who aren’t infectious is particularly concerning, said Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “That worries me a lot, just because it’s so high,” he said, adding that the organization intended to meet with Dr. Mina to discuss the issue...."

Most tests are made in China.

Ironicusmaximus

 

[JBG]

This is the famous (pay-walled) NYT article never reported anywhere but the Internet, and even there it is hard to find. Your best bet is search engine Yandex.

The FDA gave no guidance on PCR threshold settings. This was left up to states and local health authorities.


Here's a free, direct from Times link:

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. (Published 2020)

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.

www.nytimes.com

Some people love drama. Some love panic. Some both, as in Chicken Little.

 

[munkle]

50,000 Americans died of covid last year. In large part because Americans continue to refuse vaccination.

Of course, most of them are Republicans so there's fewer of them left to make bad decisions.

470,000 of the excess deaths last year were non-covid. They were from the death shots.

Pathologist Professor Dr. Arne Burkhardt’s testimony at the International Covid Summit, European Parliament, May 3, 2023, that the Covid vaccines are the cause of excess deaths, as revealed by autopsies. Dr. Burkhardt taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Berne and Tübingen.

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Dr. Burkhardt's presentation slides

Text Summary of Slides:

– In 77% of the autopsies, the findings indicate that vaccination had an important impact on the death process

– all organs are affected, the spike protein is in practically in all organs, mainly in the vessels- Heart tissue with disintegrated muscle fibers and lymphocytic infiltration- Detection of spike protein in the heart tissue

– Needle biopsy of brain tissue- Damaged vessel with dense infiltration of lymphocyte and bleeding in the surrounding area

– Damaged brain tissue – Spike protein in nerve cells

– A specimen of the aorta

– Clear damage can be seen: on the right is a splitting of the tissue layer and a haemorrhage visible

– Person died of rupture of the aorta

– Damage of the vessels in the brain

– Fragmented elastic lamella – Microanyrism

– Damaged elastic fibers in the skin (causes skin aging, premature aging)

– These elastic fibers were «dramatically reduced

– Damaged elastic fibers in the subcutaneous tissue

Conclusions: – The COVID-19 vaccination is associated with damage of heart muscle cells, nerve cells, vessels and elastic lamella… devastating findings for the long-term future… “… really alarming”

Twitter Link:

 

[ColonelAngus]

NFL draft prospect, former Pa. high school football standout dead at 25

He had recently taken a pre-draft visit with the New England Patriots.

www.pennlive.com

Another ISOLATED INCIDENT.

Weird, non causation deaths are way up in the past 3 years.

HMMMM

 

[ColonelAngus]

470,000 of the excess deaths last year were non-covid. They were from the death shots.

Pathologist Professor Dr. Arne Burkhardt’s testimony at the International Covid Summit, European Parliament, May 3, 2023, that the Covid vaccines are the cause of excess deaths, as revealed by autopsies. Dr. Burkhardt taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Berne and Tübingen.

(View at Rumble)


Dr. Burkhardt's presentation slides

Text Summary of Slides:

– In 77% of the autopsies, the findings indicate that vaccination had an important impact on the death process

– all organs are affected, the spike protein is in practically in all organs, mainly in the vessels- Heart tissue with disintegrated muscle fibers and lymphocytic infiltration- Detection of spike protein in the heart tissue

– Needle biopsy of brain tissue- Damaged vessel with dense infiltration of lymphocyte and bleeding in the surrounding area

– Damaged brain tissue – Spike protein in nerve cells

– A specimen of the aorta

– Clear damage can be seen: on the right is a splitting of the tissue layer and a haemorrhage visible

– Person died of rupture of the aorta

– Damage of the vessels in the brain

– Fragmented elastic lamella – Microanyrism

– Damaged elastic fibers in the skin (causes skin aging, premature aging)

– These elastic fibers were «dramatically reduced

– Damaged elastic fibers in the subcutaneous tissue

Conclusions: – The COVID-19 vaccination is associated with damage of heart muscle cells, nerve cells, vessels and elastic lamella… devastating findings for the long-term future… “… really alarming”

Twitter Link:

The cult never does their own research.

Can you imagine being so blinded by TDS that you refuse to acknowledge the truth about COVID and the shot?

The flu came back this winter. WEIRD!

FLU JUST TOOK A 3 YEAR VACATION…AND NOW IT IS BACK!

Cult cannot explain that. It does not fit theitr story.

The test was a VIRUS test, not a COVID test. Flu was positive for COVID.

What purpose does it serve to keep your head in the sand?