Our Covid tests are too sensitive, giving a 90% false positive - classifying the patient as infectious. Fauci has known this for months, however, the present threshold of 42 to 45 cycles is not being lowered to 35 which Fauci himself admits would be the actual value to determine a real infectious patient.
By leaving the threshold high, it ensures a permanent cycle of repeatedly locking down the economy which is used by democrat governors and mayors.
Should Biden win, I believe the threshold will be lowered and thus - miraculously - the Covid numbers will go down. Fauci is a fraud.
"... The fewer cycles needed to detect genetic matter from the virus, the higher a patient's viral load and the more likely that person is contagious ...
... many coronavirus tests have fairly high cycle thresholds, with most set at 40 and some set at 37. That means a number of patients who aren't carrying much of the new coronavirus are still testing positive, even though they may not be contagious, ...
... any test with a cycle threshold over 35 is too sensitive. "I'm shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,"
The most commonly used type of coronavirus test in America could be generating positive results for people who might not be contagious, according to some public health experts—but the experts say that doesn't necessarily mean the country should be testing less, Apoorva Mandavilli reports for the...
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