Are COVID Tests Accurate and Reliable? NO!

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Are COVID Tests Accurate and Reliable?  NO!

“There are lies, damn lies, and statistics”

      often attributed to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Positive test results are the driving force behind the endless masking, social distancing, and lockdowns that continue to threaten our lives and livelihoods. Without the constant fuel of ominous test numbers, the entire engine of COVID hysteria sputters and fails.

Health authorities long ago quit talking about COVID death statistics, since overall death numbers not only fail to support their thesis, they are clear evidence against it.

Nevada County uses a nasal swab PCR(Polymerase Chain Reaction) test for COVID.

( Source: https://www.nevadacitychamber.com/covid-19-community-testing-sites-in-nevada-county/ )

The PCR test has become the de facto standard for COVID testing, since it’s considered the most “accurate”.

And yet consider this:

The man who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for the invention of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, often stated that a PCR test is incapable of diagnosing any disease. It was widely used for diagnosing HIV/AIDS, which he felt was completely inappropriate.

The PCR test can’t detect “viral load” (the quantity of virus present) only the presence or absence of certain viral material, and does not indicate if the material detected is intact or infectious.

Manufacturers of the various COVID tests are well aware of the shortcomings of their products, and include clear warnings in the package inserts for their products.

Here are a few excerpts:

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel

!        Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.

!        An interference study evaluating the effect of common cold medications was not performed.

!        This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.

  ( Source:  https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download)   That first point says in plain language that a positive result does not necessarily mean that COVID is the cause of symptoms, or is even present in the body at all. Incredible.   This situation is akin to a thermometer with a disclaimer saying that “a high reading on this device should not be relied upon to indicate the presence of a fever, or even a high temperature”. Would you use a thermometer that admits it’s results are useless?   To expedite the availability of new tests, many are released under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). This bypasses the usual lengthy testing and validation protocols. For such EUA’s the FDA warns that:  

!        “No descriptive printed matter, including advertising or promotional materials relating to the use of your product may represent or suggest that this test is safe or effective for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.”

  ( Source:  https://www.fda.gov/media/137886/download)   In other words, neither the FDA nor the manufacturer can say that this test is effective. They can’t even vouch for it’s safety.   The WHO warns that some tests may produce false-positive results:  

!        “Several assays [tests] that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.“

  ( Source: The World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” )   MAY produce false-positives? That’s quite an understatement. Let’s dig a little deeper.   We’ve been allowed to believe that a COVID PCR test is like a pregnancy test, it’s either positive, or negative.   In truth, the results are spread across a continuous spectrum. The lab is instructed how to reduce the numbers down to a simple binary result: Positive or Negative. Yes or No.   Using the thermometer analogy, the thermometer produces a temperature in degrees, but the result is reduced to simply HOT or COLD. A reading of 85 degrees or more is arbitrarily  called “Hot”. Anything else is “Cold”. Hot/Cold, Yes/No, Positive/Negative. No shades of gray in between.   The result is highly dependent on how the sample was obtained, how sick the patient was at the time (early stage, late stage, or no symptoms at all), and most critically dependent on the number of amplification cycles the sample was put through.   Scientists know that less than 20 amplification cycles will produce 100% negative results (not enough genetic material for anything to be found). More than 50 cycles will produce 100% positive results (insignificant fragments of past infections amplified to the moon).   So test manufacturers give extremely detailed instructions on exactly how to gather samples and the range of amplifications to apply. Labs are free to use their best judgement to come up with an amplification number that will produce the most useful results.   You can see how variable this can be, just looking at amplification cycles alone. If a lab uses, for example, 37 cycles, and comes up with X number of “cases”, that case number can be wildly exaggerated if the number of cycles is ramped up to perhaps 39 cycles (each cycle produces a doubling of genetic material from the previous cycle).   Conversely, the entire pandemic can be made to disappear if we dial down the amplification cycles to say 32.   Every country, every brand of test, and every lab does their tests differently. The WHO and CDC give guidelines, but no standard methodology can be applied to all tests. And test parameters are adjusted weekly according to nebulous goals and suggestions for optimization.   Now we begin to see exactly how reliable these test numbers are.   To be reliable they need to be repeatable. They’re not.   They need to be standardized. They’re not. They can’t be, because they’re attempting to measure an ever-changing soup of genetic material, with no viral isolate as a reference.   They need to be meaningful. They’re not. Does positive mean you’re acutely sick NOW, or an asymptomatic carrier, or had the infection long ago and cleared it? Does positive mean you’re currently a threat to others?   None of these questions can be answered by COVID tests, because they can’t tell us the quantity of virus in our bodies, or even if it’s infectious or dangerous at all.   American taxpayers would appreciate a full disclosure statement such as “Results from this COVID test cannot be used by any governmental authority to justify arbitrary lockdowns or restrictions on U.S. citizens”.   Indeed, our County health authorities have done exactly that, citing California State guidelines.   It’s a pandemic, right? We have to do something.   In 2011, for no stated reason, the World Health Organization changed their definition of a Pandemic. Previously, to qualify as a Pandemic, an epidemic had to not only spread worldwide, but it had to produce widespread illness and death. Now it simply needs to be worldwide in scope, no illness or death required. Repeat – no illness or death required. According to the new definition, any common infection, even the Common Cold, qualifies as a Pandemic.   Bill Gates has repeatedly said that our lives won’t get back to normal until an effective vaccine is widely available.   ( Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/357664)   Quietly, the federal government has already established a new Vaccine Injury court to process claims for compensation to people who are seriously injured or die from one of the new fast-tracked COVID vaccines.   The vaccines are referred to as “countermeasures”.   ( Source: Section XIV at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/17/2020-05484/declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical-countermeasures )   Many people aren’t aware that in 1988 vaccine makers were given a “get out of jail free card”. If you or a loved one are injured by a vaccine, you cannot sue the manufacturer. You will have to go through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to file a claim.   ( Source: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html)   Participants say you are not allowed to use evidence from similar cases to make your case, making it extremely difficult to win a judgement in your favor.   Apparently the existing Vaccine Injury Compensation System wasn’t good enough for COVID vaccine makers. They now have their very own blanket of legal protection.   As for the COVID tests, you decide if THE SCIENCE is good enough to warrant the extreme measures our County and State governments have imposed.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/09/jon-rappoport/covid-diagnostic-test-worst-test-ever-devised/

The need for the COVID test is being hyped to the skies. More tests automatically create more case numbers. This allows heads of state and national governments to whipsaw the public:

“We were re-opening the economy, but now, with the escalating case numbers, we’ll have to impose lockdowns again…”

This wreaks more havoc and economic destruction, which is the true goal of the COVID operation. Its cruelty is boundless.

In this article, I present quotes from official sources about their own diagnostic test for the coronavirus, the PCR.

Spoiler alert: the admitted holes and shortcomings of the test are devastating.

From “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel” [1]:

“Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.”

Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. And, ahem, reading between the lines, maybe the COVID virus might not be in the patient’s body at all, either.

From the World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” [2]:

“Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.”

Translation: Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with COVID—including plain old coronas that cause nothing more than a cold.

The WHO document adds this little piece: “Protocol use limitations: Optional clinical specimens for testing has [have] not yet been validated.”

Translation: We’re not sure which tissue samples to take from the patient, in order for the test to have any validity.

From the FDA: “LabCorp COVID-19RT-PCR test EUA Summary: ACCELERATED EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION (EUA) SUMMARYCOVID-19 RT-PCR TEST (LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA)” [3]:

“…The SARS-CoV-2RNA [COVID virus] is generally detectable in respiratory specimens during the acute phase of infection. Positive results are indicative of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA; clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine patient infection status…THE AGENT DETECTED MAY NOT BE THE DEFINITE CAUSE OF DISEASE (CAPS are mine). Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.”

Translation: On the one hand, we claim the test can “generally” detect the presence of the COVID virus in a patient. But we admit that “the agent detected” on the test, by which we mean COVID virus, “may not be the definite cause of disease.” We also admit that, unless the patient has an acute infection, we can’t find COVID. Therefore, the idea of “asymptomatic patients” confirmed by the test is nonsense. And even though a positive test for COVID may not indicate the actual cause of disease, all positive tests must be reported—and they will be counted as “COVID cases.” Regardless.

From a manufacturer of PCR test kit elements, Creative Diagnostics, “SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Multiplex RT-qPCR Kit” [4]:

“Regulatory status: For research use only, not for use in diagnostic procedures.”

Translation: Don’t use the test result alone to diagnose infection or disease. Oops.

“non-specific interference of Influenza A Virus (H1N1), Influenza B Virus (Yamagata), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (type B), Respiratory Adenovirus (type 3, type 7), Parainfluenza Virus (type 2), Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Chlamydia Pneumoniae, etc.”

Translation: Although this company states the test can detect COVID, it also states the test can read FALSELY positive if the patient has one of a number of other irrelevant viruses in his body. What is the test proving, then? Who knows? Flip a coin.

“Application Qualitative”

Translation: This clearly means the test is not suited to detect how much virus is in the patient’s body. I’ll cover how important this admission is in a minute.

“The detection result of this product is only for clinical reference, and it should not be used as the only evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. The clinical management of patients should be considered in combination with their symptoms/signs, history, other laboratory tests and treatment responses. The detection results should not be directly used as the evidence for clinical diagnosis, and are only for the reference of clinicians.”

Translation: Don’t use the test as the exclusive basis for diagnosing a person with COVID. And yet, this is exactly what health authorities are doing all over the world. All positive tests must be reported to government agencies, and they are counted as COVID cases.

Those quotes, from official government and testing sources, torpedo the whole “scientific” basis of the test.

And now, I’ll add another lethal blow: the test has never been validated properly as an instrument to detect disease. Even if we blindly assumed it can detect the presence of the COVID virus in a patient, it doesn’t show HOW MUCH virus is in the body. And that is key, because in order to even begin talking about actual illness in the real world, not in a lab, the patient would need to have millions and millions of the virus actively replicating in his body.

Proponents of the test assert that it CAN measure how much virus is in the body. To which I reply: prove it.

Prove it in a way it should have been proved decades ago—but never was.

Take five hundred people and remove tissue samples from them. The people who take the samples do NOT do the test. The testers will never know who the patients are and what condition they’re in.

The testers run their PCR on the tissue samples. In each case, they say which virus they found and HOW MUCH of it they found.

“All right, in patients 24, 46, 65, 76, 87, and 93 we found a great deal of virus.”

Now we un-blind those patients. They should all be sick, because they have so much virus replicating in their bodies. Are they sick? Are they running marathons? Let’s find out.

This OBVIOUS vetting of the test has never been done. That is an enormous scandal. Where are the controlled test results in 500 patients, a thousand patients? Nowhere.

The PCR is an unproven fraud.

“But…but…what about all the sick and dying people…why are they sick?”

I’ve written thousands of words answering that question, in past articles. A NUMBER of conditions—none involving COVID, and most involving old traditional diseases—are making people sick.

There are other large-scale studies of the PCR test that have never been done. I’ve covered them in detail, in prior articles. To summarize: a study using a thousand patients, in which their tissue samples are sent to 30 different labs for analysis and verdicts, to see whether the results are uniform from lab to lab; and a study of 1000 patients, in which the results are compared with the results of analysis by electron microcopy. These large studies—never done.

In other words, the PCR test has never been adequately tested; it has never been properly validated as a diagnostic tool.

Here, from Canadian researcher David Crowe’s bombshell paper, FLAWS IN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC THEORY, is a key quote about the PCR test [5]:

“A review of 33 RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 approved under US FDA Emergency Use Authorizations showed a wide range of differences in what the tests were looking for and how they decided whether they had found it. The tests look for a variety of different segments (‘genes’) of the presumed COVID-19 genome, that only amounts to about 1% or less of the total genome, which is about 30,000 bases. Perhaps the worst feature of the tests is how they decide whether the sample is positive if more than one [‘gene’] segment is being looked for. Some tests look for only one, so it must be present for a positive. But tests that look for two segments are split between those that require both to be present and those that require either one for a positive. Some tests look for three segments but only require any two to be present, while one test insisted on all three. Tests that allow a segment to be undetected raise the question of how it can be said that a virus was detected when an important part of it was missing.”

If the PCR is a uniform standardized test, a rabbit is a spaceship.

Speaking of lack of uniformity in test results, here is a quote from Stephen Bustin, who is considered one of the foremost experts on PCR in the world. The excerpt is from his 2017 article, “Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: RT-qPCR as a paradigm for the lack of reproducibility in molecular research” [6]:

“Awareness of variability problems associated with PCR has been long-standing, with the first report describing inconsistencies with replicate and serial specimens evaluated within and between laboratories as early as 1992. The lack of a theoretical understanding of the dynamic processes involved in PCR, especially with respect to the amplification of nonreproducible and/or unexpected amplification products, was also highlighted decades ago. These observations and the resulting implications are largely disregarded.”

Here is the story of an epic failure of the PCR, right out in the open, for all to see. The reference is the NY Times, January 22, 2007, “Faith in Quick Tests Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t.” [7]

“Dr. Brooke Herndon, an internist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, could not stop coughing…By late April, other health care workers at the hospital were coughing…”

“For months, nearly everyone involved thought the medical center had had a huge whooping cough outbreak, with extensive ramifications. Nearly 1,000 health care workers at the hospital in Lebanon, N.H., were given a preliminary test and furloughed from work until their results were in; 142 people, including Dr. Herndon, were told they appeared to have the disease; and thousands were given antibiotics and a vaccine for protection. Hospital beds were taken out of commission, including some in intensive care.”

“Then, about eight months later, health care workers were dumbfounded to receive an e-mail message from the hospital administration informing them that the whole thing was a false alarm.”

“Now, as they look back on the episode, epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists say the problem was that they placed too much faith in a quick and highly sensitive molecular test [PCR] that led them astray.”

“There are no national data on pseudo-epidemics caused by an overreliance on such molecular tests, said Dr. Trish M. Perl, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins and past president of the Society of Health Care Epidemiologists of America. But, she said, pseudo-epidemics happen all the time. The Dartmouth case may have been one of the largest, but it was by no means an exception, she said.”

“Many of the new molecular [PCR] tests are quick but technically demanding, and each laboratory may do them in its own way. These tests, called ‘home brews,’ are not commercially available, and there are no good estimates of their error rates. But their very sensitivity makes false positives likely, and when hundreds or thousands of people are tested, as occurred at Dartmouth, false positives can make it seem like there is an epidemic.”

“’You’re in a little bit of no man’s land,’ with the new molecular [PCR] tests, said Dr. Mark Perkins, an infectious disease specialist and chief scientific officer at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a nonprofit foundation supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ‘All bets are off on exact performance’.”

“With pertussis, she [Dr. Kretsinger, CDC] said, ‘there are probably 100 different P.C.R. protocols and methods being used throughout the country,’ and it is unclear how often any of them are accurate. ‘We have had a number of outbreaks where we believe that despite the presence of P.C.R.-positive results, the disease was not pertussis,’ Dr. Kretsinger added.”

“Dr. Cathy A. Petti, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah, said the story had one clear lesson.”

“’The big message is that every lab is vulnerable to having false positives,’ Dr. Petti said. ‘No single test result is absolute and that is even more important with a test result based on P.C.R’.”

There is more to report about the PCR test, and I have, but I’ll make this final point for now: I’ve presented, over the last several months, compelling evidence that no one proved the existence of the COVID virus, by proper scientific procedures, in the first place. So the PCR test would be looking for…what? A virus that isn’t there?

And on the back of this test, governments are wrecking economies all over the world, and untold numbers of human lives.

SOURCES:

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

[2] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/laboratory-guidance

now redirects to…

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance-publications

see also,…

blog.microbiologics.com/2019-novel-coronavirus-what-microbiologists-need-to-know/

[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/136151/download

[4] https://www.creative-diagnostics.com/sars-cov-2-coronavirus-multiplex-rt-qpcr-kit-277854-457.htm

[5] https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf

[6] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eci.12801

[7] nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html

Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/08/corona-creating-illusion-of-pandemic-through-diagnostic-test/

https://freepress.org/article/covid-19-creating-illusion-pandemic-through-diagnostic-tests

https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-whole-scam-just-fell-apart-covid-test-overwhelming-number-of-false-posi

The whole scam just fell apart: COVID test, overwhelming number of false positives The issue appears to be the ballooning sensitivity of the PCR test

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)

Yes, that’s what the NY Times is confessing (8/29):

“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…”

“In three sets of testing data…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.”

Let me break this down for you, because it’s a lot worse than the Times admits.  The rabbit hole goes much deeper—-and I’ve been reporting on the deeper facts for months.

The issue appears to be the ballooning sensitivity of the PCR test.  It’s so sensitive that it picks up inconsequential tiny, tiny amounts of virus that couldn’t harm a flea—-and it calls these amounts “positive.”

Therefore, millions of people are labeled “positive/infected” who carry so little virus that no harm would come to them or anyone they come in contact with.

That would be bad enough.  But the truth is, the PCR test is not able to produce ANY reliable number that reflects how much virus a person is carrying.  A lot, a little, it doesn’t matter.

The test has never been validated, in a large-scale study, for the ability to quantify the amount of virus a person is carrying.  I’ve proposed how that study should be done IN THE REAL WORLD, NOT IN THE LAB.

ALL the PCR tests being done on people all over the world reflect NOTHING about illness, infection, contagion, or transmission

You take 1000 people and remove tissue samples from them.  A lab puts these samples through its PCR and announces which virus it found in each case and how much virus it found in each case.

It says: “All right, in patients 23, 46, 76, 89, 265 we found a high amount of virus.”

That should mean these particular patients are visibly sick.  They will have obvious clinical symptoms.  Why?  Because actual illness requires millions of millions of a virus replicating in the body.

So now we unblind these particular patients with high amounts of virus, according to the PCR.  Are they, in fact, sick?  Or are they running marathons and swimming five miles a day?  Let’s see.  For real.

THIS VALIDATION OF THE PCR HAS NEVER BEEN DONE.

Therefore, the claim that the PCR can determine how much virus is in a human is completely and utterly unproven.  Period.

Therefore, ALL the PCR tests being done on people all over the world reflect NOTHING about illness, infection, contagion, or transmission.

The scam is wall to wall

The scam is wall to wall.

But there’s more.

The PCR isn’t even testing for a particular virus in the first place.  It’s using a piece of RNA assumed to be part of a virus.  The assumption is unproven.

And finally, as I’ve been writing and demonstrating for months, there is no evidence that researchers used proper procedure to discover “a new coronavirus that is causing a pandemic.”

Therefore, the PCR test, as worthless as it already is, aims to show the presence of a germ that has never been shown to exist.

But let’s lock down the planet, destroy economies and untold numbers of lives in the process.

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