It's all bullshit. The Greek alphabet will run out of letters before the government is finished lying about variants about to harm you unvaccinated super spreaders harming the vaccinated super spreaders.
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Each year, there are about 4 or 5 different flu variants in the U.S..
Flu variants = Covid variants. It's the FLU.
I'm guessing that the variants used to be called regular flu.
I've been wondering the same, if it can't tell the difference between these two things, How can it detect variants? variants on WHAT?
Lab tech here. There are PCR test out there that have differentiated. Ours runs a panel of the 12 most common viruses including Flu and Covid. I trust the results more than "rapid" PCR test which are more prone to contamination.
Covid is real. It's not the flu. But there are issues with PCR instruments. Ours seems to be one of the most reliable. For instance our positive QC material is a piece of the virus. It has to flag as positive or something is wrong and we don't run those test.
REALLY?! The INVENTOR of the PCR test said it CANNOT be used as a diagnostic tool! IT CAN'T DIAGNOSE ANYTHING !!!!!!!
I'm not saying it's perfect. And certainly shouldn't have been used to force lockdowns because of "cases". But it's a good tool.
This is a paid pharma shill. 👆👆👆
I'm pretty poor actually but thanks you can take your tin foil hat off now.
Nah, I've been around for a looong time and I can tell when ever you people come crawling out.
Time to make another account, you been made.
Ok sir
Isn't " 'rapid' PCR" test an oxymoron? Isnl;t there a distinction between the "rapid" test (antigen) and the "PCR" test?
How many cycles you running? Hospital? Do you run all samples at the same number of cycles or segregate based on vax history or covid history?
The respiratory panel (on the BioFire) that run like 22 viruses doesn't report Cts. But it does detect both S and M proteins on the virus (Covid). The Abbot Rapid can be set to whatever but I think it's <30.
Everyone gets ran the same regardless in the lab. I cannot say what is being done in our ER because we are not in charge of the Rapid test.
Iv seen both vaccinated and unvaccinated get tested even if they are sent home from the ER. Iv seen both vax and unvax tested even if hospitalized. Symptoms are key.
I'm not arguing that PCR Covid testing is the best ever. But in the past with other respiratory illnesses they have been pretty accurate. Especially for RSV in kids.
I think the whole controversy stims from the fact that PCR cannot confirm that a person is infectious but it can reasonably detect the presence of either past or current virus. In other words you cannot use it as simply a confirmation of current infection/transmissibility ....you have to have symptoms to really nail that down or not.