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Saturday, 26 September 2020

British Foreign Secretary Says ‘False Positive Rate’ for COVID-19 is ‘Very High’

PCR is a manufacturing process not a diagnostic tool. The PCR test does not isolate, identify or even detect any particular virus. If you are sick and have viral fragments the PCR test amplifies those sequences exponentially along with any contamination or errors from the sample.

[Humans Are Free]: British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab recently made an appearance on Sky News, and when asked about testing inside of airports he stated that,

“The challenge is the false positive rate is very high, so only seven percent of tests will be successful in identifying those that actually have the the virus. So the truth is, we can’t just rely on that…”

He went on to mention that we must rely on self-isolation at home, and have further testing there as well as an overall effort to ramp up testing, but my question is, are the tests used at home any more accurate?

Does this mean the infection fatality rate is actually higher because not as many people are infected?

Or does this mean, as multiple studies have pointed out, that the number of infected people greatly exceed our current numbers (thus greatly lowing the fatality rate) and that the tests simply aren’t capable or properly identifying these people?

A false positive test means that people who test positive for the virus may not actually have it...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...