As discussed in the previous post, the foundation of the use of PCR tests for diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 and determination of prevalence rates – the gold standard of viral isolation – has not adequately been undertaken. Ans ifven if the test could be considered reliable, there is also the issue of the number of amplifications run on a test.
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Has the SARS CoV-2 virus been isolated?
This discussion follows on from a previous post on where the mRNA used in the test and vaccines, comes from. A murky background indeed.
The foundation of the use of PCR tests for diagnosis and to determine prevalence rates is under dispute. In Vaccines Revealed (VR) Episode 6, Dr Thomas Cowan explains how people have sent him citations of around 20 peer-reviewed papers published in medical and scientific journals, where scientists assert that they have isolated this alleged novel coronavirus. This prompted Cowan, together with journalist Thorsten Englebrecht, to contact some of the authors to check if the steps generally agreed upon to isolate the virus had been followed – invariably the answer has been no. With regard to a paper published in Nature, Cowan recounts (in the VR interview cited earlier) that the authors acknowledged:
“We did not obtain an electron micrograph showing the degree of purification,” which is considered an essential step of proof.Read more
Gold standard of viral isolation and the non-specificity of the tests
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test “is so powerful that it can even isolate information that cells carry from the past, such as a fragment of genetic information that may have been circulating in your mother’s womb, a bacteria you breathed in a week ago, or if you were exposed to a virus at the grocery store. In other words, your body may have been exposed to and even reacted on a cellular level to a microbe, but that doesn’t mean you actively have or have had the disease. […] If the PCR test was used every flu season as a diagnostic tool, our flu diagnoses would likely jump, as we apply the label to those who were exposed but never actually became ill. Therefore, we have high rates of false-positive results from COVID testing because the genetic information picked up in the test is being amplified far beyond clinical relevance, and state governors and other public officials have been pushed into making drastic public health emergency decisions based upon this faulty data.
Dr Zach Bush, Vaccines Revealed Episode 1