Flaws in Coronavirus Testing

Larry A. Law

The primary test for the pandemic coronavirus is called the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test. People are surprised to find out that it has nothing to do with the actual coronavirus. It is a surrogate test that does not look for the actual virus. The actual virus has never been isolated. The test was based on the genetic sequence published by Chinese scientists and missing genetic code was simply made up. It would be like looking at a few fish bones in a fish market and trying to identify which fish it came from. It could be any fish. So, no gold standard exists as a basis for the test!

In spite of the lack of a gold standard, snippets of genetic material are amplified from swabs taken from the back of nasal cavities and compared to the man-made sequence. Each amplification is called a cycle threshold (CT). CTs of 17 would provide 100% real positives. A CT of 33 results in 20% accuracy and 80% false positives. A CT of 35 is only 3% accurate and 97% false. The World Health Organization recommends a CT of 45 and the CDC recommends a CT of 40! It is therefore no surprise that we are experiencing an epidemic of false cases of coronavirus testing. The inventor of PCR technology, Kary Mullis, insisted that PCR tests do not prove causation and cannot diagnose illness.

Aside from PCR testing, there is no evidence of a lethal pandemic. Excess deaths are at normal levels. The overall infection fatality rate for the coronavirus is 0.26% (a quarter of 1%). If you are under age 40, it drops to 0.01% (one hundredth of 1%). In addition, the CDC reported that only 6% of pandemic deaths were solely attributable to the virus. So, 400,000 American deaths are really only 24,000 deaths which is far less than the flu. Clearly, someone is lying to us as we are not in a real pandemic.

Watch an excellent 15-minute overview of the problems of PCR testing (called PCR Deception) and the truth about the pandemic hosted on Dr. Mercola's website. 

**Less than a week after this article was published, the WHO lowered the CT count for the PCR test admitting their previous recommendation was wrong and caused excessive false positive results. See a 2-minute video summary here.**