I've tried to locate the WHY behind why they're pulling this option for testing so I can share with my friends and family. (I know we all already know why. The PCR tests are shit and should have never been used.) Their website says they aren't using this method for testing after 12/31, but it does not indicate why. Does anyone have a link or info they can share with me to note their change?
Would love it to be a CDC source since they're so faithful to these idiots. At least then they can't fault me for my "article" if it comes direct from who they praise. Thanks in advance, frens!
You're thinking of this, but the explanation isn't probably what you want:
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
Q people are focusing on this part:
What Q people think this means is, "Oops, our test couldn't tell the difference between COVID and the flu! Our bad!"
What it actually says is this:
"Our test could find COVID just fine. However, there are better tests out now called multiplex tests that can detect both COVID and the flu. We want you to use those tests now, and we're retiring this test that could only detect COVID, and not the flu."
They are not saying the original test got confused between these viruses. But if someone had the flu, then used this test, it would just come back as negative for COVID. The new test would say, "negative for COVID, but positive for the flu."
That's what's happened. It's been widely misinterpreted
Here's smarter people than me explaining it (finally) so that I no longer have to type out everything myself.
https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/pcr-test-recall-can-the-test-tell-the-difference-between-covid-19-and-the-flu
It's not a recall. It's a retirement of one test in favor of a better, upgraded test that can see more problems in a single test than the old one.
OK, but I think they are lying to you. You can get different results from the COVID-19 PCR test depending on the number of cycles used. So the tests are not even consistent because one lab using one cycle threshold could produce a positive while another lab using a different cycle threshhold could get another result.
Also, I believe that the current test does not test for the actual virus - partly because they had not isolated the virus when they were developing the test. Rather, the test looks for associated molecules which are believed to be associate with the virus. One report I saw suggested that one of the DNA strings being sought was present in most p[eople's DNA so if you went over a certain number of cycles everyone would test positive.
Finally, and this should not be ignored, the inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis, said that PCR was NOT a test. It could not determine things like viral loads and was not suitable for diagnoses. It did what it did very well but it is not a test.
My (cynical) guess is that PCR ios being replaced because:
You’re welcome to believe that if you want, but OP wanted to attempt to use the CDC info to show their incompetence, and unfortunately, that’s not likely to work, since the CDC info doesn’t say what people around here tend to think it says. That’s all.
Would you believe Dr Fauci?
Here is the NHS in the UK using 45 cycles (i.e. around 1,000 times more amplification than Fauci suggests is the useful limit) as obtained in a freedom of information request.
This is Kary Mullis. Note, he is not talking about COVID-19 but HIV because he, strangely, died right before the COVID-19 outbreak where they went into overdrive with RT-PCR testing. Wasn't that convenient particularly as he is no friend of Dr Fauci and would, no doubt, have enjoyed exposing him?
You went in a different direction than where I was heading, Orge. Since we’re here though, what you’re saying does (and could/would) make sense, but unfortunately they’re still lying to you, as Watcher pointed out above. Their narrative is now basically, “No big deal guys, this one works fine, we’re just casually switching to this new one so it can detect for both flu and Covid. Two birds one stone. No big deal. It’s helpful! Carry on.”
It sounds good! But in the end, they’re still full of shit. And sadly, their ways of doing this fool many, as you’ve just shared your interpretations of it, which I believe are wrong. If you have been paying attention, the inventor of the PCR test himself said that these tests are not intended to direct viruses such as this, among many other plausible reasons for not using the PCR test and its ability to magnify to infinity and have a guarantee of always finding SOMETHING.
What I am looking for, is the truth. Not the story and reasoning they’re giving. Like I said, if you’ve paid attention, we all know why they’re removing the PCR tests. They won’t need to falsify inflating numbers forever. They’ll move on to bigger and better narratives. What I want and was hoping for, was something beyond the text you shared. I had read that, but I was hopeful that maybe somewhere else on their site they’d have admitted that the tests are faulty for this, that being the reason for the discontinued use. But.. I guess they didn’t. And won’t. Should have assumed we won’t get the truth!
You can believe what you want about the truth. But if you bring the CDC notice that you requested to your family, they will have an easy explanation, which is the one that I provided, which is that you are misinterpreting what the CDC is saying about the original PCR test.
If you’re hoping for a gotcha redpill, this isn’t it.