Amplification factor being used when determining test results for the CoVID-19 test kits
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From: Julie Williams
Dear Ministry of Health,
What amplification factor are your technicians using when determining test results for the CoVID-19 test kits? If a range is being used explain what that range is and detail why.
Yours faithfully,
Julie Williams
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Subject: Official Information request - Amplification factor being used
when determining test results for the CoVID-19 test kits
Dear Ministry of Health,
What amplification factor are your technicians using when determining test
results for the CoVID-19 test kits? If a range is being used explain what
that range is and detail why.
Yours faithfully,
Julie Williams
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In summary: "“The PCR reaction will continue to run for its full 40 cycles to allow for exponential amplification of the RNA targets”
Anthony Fauci himself has asserted that 35 cycles or higher makes the test result useless. Yet the FDA and the CDC recommend running the test at up to 40 cycles. This has opened the door to millions of false positives. [2] [3]
July 16, 2020, podcast, “This Week in Virology”: Tony Fauci makes a point of saying the PCR COVID test is useless and misleading when the test is run at “35 cycles or higher.” A positive result, indicating infection, cannot be accepted or believed.
Here, in techno-speak, is an excerpt from Fauci’s key quote (starting at about the 4-minute mark [3]):
“…If you get [perform the test at] a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-confident [aka accurate] are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus [detect a true positive result] from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…”
Each “cycle” of the test is a quantum leap in amplification and magnification of the test specimen taken from the patient.
Too many cycles, and the test will turn up all sorts of irrelevant material that will be wrongly interpreted as relevant.
That’s called a false positive.
The lockdowns and other restraining measures are based on these case numbers which are test results which useless and misleading due to the very high rate of false possitives
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