I don't know about the US. But in Germany the ideal situation was never present. The labs did run double the amount of cycles that could give you a real idea if the person has more then a scrap of whatever the test looks for in his mouth or nostril. It cannot say if it is viable or dead. It can just say it's present. But with a too high …
I don't know about the US. But in Germany the ideal situation was never present. The labs did run double the amount of cycles that could give you a real idea if the person has more then a scrap of whatever the test looks for in his mouth or nostril. It cannot say if it is viable or dead. It can just say it's present. But with a too high number of cycles, we are talking trace amount. I know people with two positive tests and two negative ones on the same day. I don't know if the human genome match could potentially make false positives. But overtesting and a too high number of cycles sure can. Up to well over 90% false positives. Thats why monitoring healthy school children or otherwise symptomless people with PCR isn't a meaningful thing to do. My poor grandniece is becoming an IC nurse. The kid went six times into PCR quarantine, plus two times Corona infection, which not always led to a positive test right when it became interesting in terms of potential transmission. If this even was the goal.
To create numbers and fear, the test was fabulous. And fear is, what Dr. Drosten knows and likes best, he has done so with swine flu before. So yes I believe he made the test to create cases not to detect actual illness, but I cannot say, if the human genome matches can add to that.
You said "My poor grandniece is becoming an IC nurse." Is this intensive care or infection control? I do infection control for a hospital for both staff and patients. Your comments about cycle counts and high asymptomatic positive are spot on.
I don't know about the US. But in Germany the ideal situation was never present. The labs did run double the amount of cycles that could give you a real idea if the person has more then a scrap of whatever the test looks for in his mouth or nostril. It cannot say if it is viable or dead. It can just say it's present. But with a too high number of cycles, we are talking trace amount. I know people with two positive tests and two negative ones on the same day. I don't know if the human genome match could potentially make false positives. But overtesting and a too high number of cycles sure can. Up to well over 90% false positives. Thats why monitoring healthy school children or otherwise symptomless people with PCR isn't a meaningful thing to do. My poor grandniece is becoming an IC nurse. The kid went six times into PCR quarantine, plus two times Corona infection, which not always led to a positive test right when it became interesting in terms of potential transmission. If this even was the goal.
To create numbers and fear, the test was fabulous. And fear is, what Dr. Drosten knows and likes best, he has done so with swine flu before. So yes I believe he made the test to create cases not to detect actual illness, but I cannot say, if the human genome matches can add to that.
You said "My poor grandniece is becoming an IC nurse." Is this intensive care or infection control? I do infection control for a hospital for both staff and patients. Your comments about cycle counts and high asymptomatic positive are spot on.
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