15/03/2025
There are countless publications and letters in various peer-reviewed medical literature sources pointing to the problematic nature of PCR testing during "pandemics." This was a fact largely ignored during COVID-19 and never conveyed to the public, creating a divide between those who knew this fact and those who didn't.
A letter to the editor published in the Journal of Infection titled, āThe performance of the SARS-C0V-2 RT-PCR test as a tool for detecting SARS-COV-2 infection in the populationā states the following:
"In light of our findings that more than half of individuals with positive PCR test results are unlikely to have been infectious, RT-PCR test positivity should not be taken as an accurate measure of infectious SARS-C0V-2 incidence. Our results confirm the findings of others that the routine use of āpositiveā RT-PCR test results as the gold standard for assessing and controlling infectiousness fails to reflect the fact āthat 50-75% of the time an individual is PCR positive, they are likely to be post-infectious."
PCR tests amplify viral material in samples to find traces of COVID-19. If the sample taken from a nasal swab contains a large amount of COVID virus, it will be read "positive" after only a few cycles of amplification, while a smaller sample with small amounts of genetic material will require more cycles to amplify enough of the genetic material to get a positive result.
Since the PCR test amplifies traces of COVID-19 through cycles, a lower number of cycles needed to get a positive result suggests the presence of a higher viral load for the person being tested and, therefore a more accurate result.
An article published in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases titled "Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain ReactionāPositives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates" found that among positive PCR samples with a cycle count over 35, only 3 percent of the samples showed viral replication.
This can be interpreted as, if someone tests positive via PCR when a Ct of 35 or higher is used, the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%. In this case, false positive means a person is not infectious or capable of transmitting the virus to others.
High cycle thresholds were used throughout the pandemic, this is why we saw so many healthy people with no symptoms testing positive for COVID-19. It is also why someone who recovered from COVID months ago could still test positive even though they are not infectious. This was a problem raised by many experts in the field, and has been a problem with past viral breakouts. Unfortunately, this side of the story was never told, and virologists and epidemiologists trying to point this out were censored.
