TSOT032: FDA Allowed Such Variance in PCR Tests that Practically They Were Not Even Close to the Same Tests
Mar 12, 2022, 07:50 AM
A review of two key documents by the FDA. High Points:
1. PCR tests, by dozens, and then hundreds of manufacturers, were not based off an actual clinical specimen. Instead, manufacturers were instructed to, in essence, come up with their best guess of covid-ish for their tests to detect, through any number of "contrived" means (Yes, the FDA literally describes them as "contrived." Multiple times)
2. Once the FDA did allegedly come up with a good specimen, only a couple of months into the exercise in May of 2020, they did not make manufacturers then create tests based on that standard. Instead they just suggested to the manufacturers that they could just use it to check their tests.
So all along, until the PCR tests were discontinued from emergency use at the end of 2021, they varied so widely that the FDA literally says it doesn't make much sense to even compare them.
But, to the extent they did - by comparing their performance, in sensitivity to detect the standard specimen, PCR tests varied by over 3,000-fold, depending on manufacturer! The lowest could detect at 180 (such-and-such units - I say it in the episode). The least sensitive required over 600,000 of those units minimally to detect Covid.
There was never "A PCR test". And there was never even a standard on what it detected. We know it doesn't look for the whole virus. See other episodes on cycle threshold sensitivity and Demon Fear-Ci's appearance on This Week in Virology reciting how above 35 cycles (multiplications) the test is just detecting "dead nucleotides, period".
Thanks for coming on this ongoing journey of discovery and emphasis of important truths and distinctions.
1. PCR tests, by dozens, and then hundreds of manufacturers, were not based off an actual clinical specimen. Instead, manufacturers were instructed to, in essence, come up with their best guess of covid-ish for their tests to detect, through any number of "contrived" means (Yes, the FDA literally describes them as "contrived." Multiple times)
2. Once the FDA did allegedly come up with a good specimen, only a couple of months into the exercise in May of 2020, they did not make manufacturers then create tests based on that standard. Instead they just suggested to the manufacturers that they could just use it to check their tests.
So all along, until the PCR tests were discontinued from emergency use at the end of 2021, they varied so widely that the FDA literally says it doesn't make much sense to even compare them.
But, to the extent they did - by comparing their performance, in sensitivity to detect the standard specimen, PCR tests varied by over 3,000-fold, depending on manufacturer! The lowest could detect at 180 (such-and-such units - I say it in the episode). The least sensitive required over 600,000 of those units minimally to detect Covid.
There was never "A PCR test". And there was never even a standard on what it detected. We know it doesn't look for the whole virus. See other episodes on cycle threshold sensitivity and Demon Fear-Ci's appearance on This Week in Virology reciting how above 35 cycles (multiplications) the test is just detecting "dead nucleotides, period".
Thanks for coming on this ongoing journey of discovery and emphasis of important truths and distinctions.