WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 7, 2020 - We have detailed the controversy surrounding Amerika’s COVID “casedemic” and the misleading results of the PCR test and its amplification procedure in great detail over the past few months.

As a reminder, “cycle thresholds” (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests can detect a sample of the COVID-19 virus. The higher the number of cycles, the lower the amount of viral load in the sample; the lower the cycles, the more prevalent the virus was in the original sample.

Numerous epidemiological experts have argued that cycle thresholds are an important metric by which patients, the public, and policymakers can make more informed decisions about how infectious and/or sick an individual with a positive COVID-19 test might be. However, health departments across the country are failing to collect that data.

Here are a few headlines from those experts and scientific studies:

1. Experts compiled three datasets with officials from the states of Massachusetts, New York and Nevada that conclude, “up to 90% of the people who tested positive did not carry a virus.”
   
   
2. The Wadworth Center, a New York State laboratory, analyzed the results of its July tests at the request of The New York Times: 794 positive tests with a Ct of 40: “With a Ct threshold of 35, approximately halfof these PCR tests would no longer be considered positive,” said the NYT. “About 70% would no longer be considered positive with a Ct of 30.”
   
   
3. An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful.

4. A new study from the Infectious Diseases Society of Amerika found that at 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of PCR test “positives” are not “cases” since the virus cannot be cultured, it’s dead; and by 35, 97% of the positives are non-clinical.
   
   
5. PCR is not testing for disease, it’s testing for a specific RNA patternand this is the key pivot. When you crank it up to 25, 70% of the positive results are not really “positives” in any clinical sense.

So in summary, with regard to our current “casedemic”, positive tests as they are counted today do not indicate a “case” of anything. They indicate that viral RNA was found in a nasal swab. It may be enough to make you sick, but it probably won’t. Certainly there is not sufficient replication of the virus to make anyone else sick. But you will be sent home for ten days anyway, even if you never have a sniffle. This is the number the media breathlessly reports, and is used to fear monger mask mandates and lockdowns nationwide.

All of which is background for an intriguing decision made by Florida’s Department of Health (and signed off on by Florida’s Republican Governor Ron deSantis).

For the first time in the history of the pandemic, a state will require that all labs in the state report the critical “cycle threshold” level of every COVID-19 test they perform.