https://thenationaltelegraph.com/regional/newfoundland-covid-testing-likely-to-generate-false-positives In PCR news, Newfoundland's covid testing is generating false positives according to an acesss to information request by the National Telegraph reported this week and here are some highlights from the article: Through an access to information request to Eastern Health Newfoundland & Labrador by a reader of The National Telegraph regarding how many times the PCR tests are cycled in order to test for COVID-19, it was found that Eastern Health was significantly over-testing which can lead to high rates of false positives.In the response back from Eastern Health they said, “please note that the cycle threshold is 45 cycles,” which was the number of cycles they had been testing with since the beginning of the pandemic last March.(note :45 is too high of a cycle threshold and if you go to high this can result) For background on why 45 separate cycles are bad practice, it's important to know how a PRC test generally works.
PRC stands for a polymerase chain reaction, essentially what the test is doing is taking increasingly larger and larger samples of the biological material collected to see if the virus can be detected. Each cycle doubles the sample tested and the earlier on in the process virus is detected the more likely it is accurate. On the other hand, by the time the 30-35 cycle is reached the amount of untested samples is quite unlikely to find significant amounts of a virus. 45 cycles are testing the sample in such great detail to find any particle of the virus even if COVID is detected it may not be in a large enough amount to matter.
According to Dr. Robert Hagan at Medpage Today, “With these types of tests, it's critical to use an agreed-upon cycle threshold value such as 33 (CDC) or 35 (Dr. Fauci) rather than setting it at a potentially misleading 40 or 45. Many of the current tests in use are preset by the manufacturer to these higher numbers.”Currently, the COVID-19 infection numbers in Newfoundland & Labrador cannot be trusted on their face, so although they have only had 704 “confirmed cases” of COVID-19 they may actually be significantly lower than that due to the issues with false positives inherent in their method of testing.
Newfoundland has been experiencing a rise in cases with 296 new cases between February 2-15, so before the provincial government tries to act on what it sees as a fast rise in COVID-19 cases they may want to look at the validity of their tests. (the level of fraud we are being screwed on is incredible and these public health officials need to be held accountable for their unethical actions as well as the establishment politicians who go along for more power and control over a virus that is 99.7% recoverable and fatality rate of 0.23% and these PCR tests need to be thrown out as well since they are clearly inaccurate and faulty at best but governments need them to justify destroying the economy and the health of all Canadians across the country)
