New York Times Finds 90% of Positive PCR Tests for COVID May Have Been False

April 16th, 2024

Awake Goy

This is the famous NYT article known to all anti-COVID vaxers but never reported anywhere but the Internet, and even there it is hard to find. Your best bet is search engine Yandex.

The FDA gave no guidance on PCR threshold settings. This was left up to states and local health authorities.

The number of new cases was the top of the news every day. If COVID didn’t kill Remdesivir and inappropriate intubation definitely would. This is already mass murder When you rustle up the death count you want, you ram through mandates for untested dangerous mRNA bioagents. Which really will kill lots of people but it will be spread out and easy to gaslight away.

New York Times, “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be,” August 29 2020 (Excerpt)

By Apoorva Mandavilli

“Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But researchers say the solution is not to test less, or to skip testing people without symptoms, as recently suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Instead, new data underscore the need for more widespread use of rapid tests, even if they are less sensitive.

“The decision not to test asymptomatic people is just really backward,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, referring to the C.D.C. recommendation.

“In fact, we should be ramping up testing of all different people,” he said, “but we have to do it through whole different mechanisms.”

In what may be a step in this direction, the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would purchase 150 million rapid tests.

The most widely used diagnostic test for the new coronavirus, called a PCR test, provides a simple yes-no answer to the question of whether a patient is infected.

But similar PCR tests for other viruses do offer some sense of how contagious an infected patient may be: The results may include a rough estimate of the amount of virus in the patient’s body.

“We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,” Dr. Mina said. “We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.”

But yes-no isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. “It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,” Dr. Mina said.

The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.

This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.

One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus.

Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said.

Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said.

A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on.

“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests, that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” one virologist said.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The Food and Drug Administration said in an emailed statement that it does not specify the cycle threshold ranges used to determine who is positive, and that “commercial manufacturers and laboratories set their own.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is examining the use of cycle threshold measures “for policy decisions.” The agency said it would need to collaborate with the F.D.A. and with device manufacturers to ensure the measures “can be used properly and with assurance that we know what they mean.”

The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.

For example, North Carolina’s state lab uses the Thermo Fisher coronavirus test, which automatically classifies results based on a cutoff of 37 cycles. A spokeswoman for the lab said testers did not have access to the precise numbers.

This amounts to an enormous missed opportunity to learn more about the disease, some experts said.

“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests — that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York.

“It would be useful information to know if somebody’s positive, whether they have a high viral load or a low viral load,” she added.

Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 872 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles.

With a cutoff of 35, about 43 percent of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 63 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30.

In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said.

Other experts informed of these numbers were stunned.

“I’m really shocked that it could be that high — the proportion of people with high C.T. value results,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “Boy, does it really change the way we need to be thinking about testing.”

Dr. Jha said he had thought of the PCR test as a problem because it cannot scale to the volume, frequency or speed of tests needed. “But what I am realizing is that a really substantial part of the problem is that we’re not even testing the people who we need to be testing,” he said.

The number of people with positive results who aren’t infectious is particularly concerning, said Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “That worries me a lot, just because it’s so high,” he said, adding that the organization intended to meet with Dr. Mina to discuss the issue…. FULL ARTICLE

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Dr. Mike Yeadon

In 2022 a former chairman of the Council of Europe Health Committee, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, and a former Chief Science Officer (CSO) and Vice President for Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, said there is an unusual pattern in the data from the CDC’s own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) which resembled the “calibration of a killing weapon.”

In astonishing recent developments, Dr. Yeadon shocked the UK parliament by charging in a speech that the vaccines were designed deliberately to “harm people.” The speech was promptly censored from the official record. Dr. Yeadon spoke at the invitation of MP Andrew Bridgen. Another speech in December before the German Parliament, which Dr. Yeadon had been invited to address, was also promptly censored. (FULL TRANSCRIPT OF YEADON UK PARLIAMENT SPEECH)

In the US, excess deaths since the 2021 COVID vaccine roll-out, through 2023, are about 1.57 million. Only 667,000 of these can be accounted for by COVID. This leaves 905,000 unaccounted for, non-COVID excess deaths. Worldwide since the vaccine roll-out, excess deaths which are not due to COVID are around 20 million.

In September 2023, a University of Ottawa scientist Prof. Denis Rancourt, who Dr. Yeadon cites in his speech, estimated that 17 million people had so far been killed by the COVID vaccines. This is close to the number of non-COVID excess deaths since the vaccine roll-out.

Excess deaths are the number of deaths which occur over and above what would be expected in normal times, which varies very little from year to year.

A popular “fact check” in the site Health Feedback, which is funded by openly pro-COVID-vaccine Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman, and China-owned Tik Tok, argues that COVID deaths could explain the large number of excess deaths seen worldwide. But there are not nearly enough of them: 1.57 million excess deaths in the US since 2021 versus 667,000 COVID deaths, and 30 million excess deaths worldwide versus about 7 million COVID deaths.

The discrepancy has forced the media and medical establishment to invent such brand new diseases as “SADS,” or “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.”

Dr. Mike Yeadon’s Address To UK Parliament 4th December 2023 (view at Rumble) (TRANSCRIPT) (RUMBLE BACK-UP)

Prof. Rancourt has controversially said “there was no pandemic” in the run-up to severe lockdown measures being declared around the world. Supporting his statement, data shows that although the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic on March 11, 2020, in many countries, including the US, there were no significant excess deaths, and there were even negative excess deaths, even up until March 8th (see chart below.)

Rancourt argues that many of the spikes in deaths which can be observed were a result of government-imposed incentives to use inappropriate treatments on COVID patients such as Remdesivir, which even the WHO recommended against by October 2020, and immediate ventilator intubation, which was halted as a standard procedure by the end of 2020

Below source (CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE)

Autopsies Showing COVID Vaccines Are Responsible Ignored or Buried

The official posture of the FDA is to simply ignore any science which runs counter to its claim that the shots are safe. In September 2022, the FDA refused to release anonymized autopsy reports requested through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times, for all autopsies obtained by the FDA concerning any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccination. Although the FDA and the medical establishment are fond of saying “correlation does not prove causation” when a COVID vaccination is followed by sudden death, when the opportunity arose to prove or disprove causation, the FDA buried the autopsies.

Since Dr. Yeadon’s speech, seven UK Ministers of Parliament have demanded, in an Open Letter to the UK government, data which “will provide definitive insight as to whether or not the covid vaccines are “safe and effective” or not.”

With the support of six other colleagues, I have written to Prof. Sir Ian Diamond to request that the ONS produce a detailed time-series cohort analysis like they should have done 3 years ago.

This request was validated by Professors @profnfenton and @carlheneghan pic.twitter.com/fPogFaj3el

— Andrew Bridgen MP (@ABridgen) March 3, 2024

Below: Ex-Pfzer VP Dr. Mike Yeadon on Dr. Drew Show warning that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are extremely dangerous and make the whole body into a “spike protein factory.”

In May 2023 renown pathologist Dr. Arne Burkhardt made a presentation at the EU Parliament, in which he showed autopsy findings which led him to conclude that the COVID vaccines were responsible for many of the excess deaths now being witnessed. In the US and globally for 2021, 2022, and 2023, the number of all-cause deaths over and above normal levels is about 20%, the vast majority not from COVID.

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Also Read: Prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) Says COVID Vaccines Are 20 Times More Dangerous Than COVID

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Links to doctors’ calls for halts to mass “vaccinations,” partial list: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Data sources for above charts 1, 2, 3, 4.

Pathologist Dr. Arne Burkhardt, Dr. Arne Burkhardt, Universities of Hamburg, Berne and Tübingen. (view at Rumble) (Presentation slides)

Fits-Like-Glove Correlations Between Vaccination Rates and Excess Deaths in Many Countries

In many countries, uncanny correlations can be seen between rates of vaccination, and rates of excess mortality.

Below: Timeline of excess deaths and COVID vaccination rates in various countries. Source (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER IMAGE)

Dr. Robert Malone, an mRNA vaccine pioneer and now a prominent critic of the vaccines he helped create, examined the findings of Drs. Wodarg and Yeadon in “Toxic By Design: “Hot Lots” and how to avoid them.”

The Expose covered the story on January 6, 2022 in “Death by Covid Injection Is Premeditated and Co-ordinated, Experts Conclude.”

Scientists Dr. Yeadon and Dr. Wodarg Say COVID Vaccine Batch Death Patterns Mirror “Dose Range-Finding”

Dr. Yeadon and Dr. Wodarg conclude that the vast and methodical differences in the number of deaths, permanent disabilities, and other “adverse events” associated with different batches of the vaccines, are deliberate. Each major vaccine, Janssen, Pfizer, and Moderna, shows a pattern resembling what they call “dose range finding,” a scientific method for discovering the toxicity of different concentrations of a substance.

Yeadon and Wodarg argue that these patterns cannot possibly be accidental, especially given the highly precise nature of drug manufacturing. Such wide variations in safety signals between batches would have caused any other drug to be pulled from the market.

Dr. Yeadon says that, given the history of lies from health authorities and governments surrounding the COVID saga, he has no choice but to conclude that the vaccines may be part of a long-term program to “kill people intentionally.”

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an outspoken Ohio physician, says “They have found a way to slow-kill people.” Dr. Tenpenny’s medical license was attacked by the Ohio Medical Board in 2021 and has had her license suspended for saying some COVID vaccines contained magnetic substances. But in August 2021, the government of Japan pulled 1.6 million doses of the Moderna COVID vaccine as the result of “a substance that reacts to magnets.”

Below: Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Chief Science Officer (CSO) and Vice President for Pfizer, key excerpt from interview on deliberately deadlier batches (20 minutes) (Transcript of key excerpt from interview) (view at Rumble) (Full interviews of Doctors Yeadon and Wodarg) (view below video at Rumble original link)

Yeadon famously publicly accused four of his former colleagues of Crimes Against Humanity and demanded they resign. So far two of them have.

The scientists show, in a presentation, what a random distribution of adverse events from a typical vaccine looks like, compared to the pattern of adverse events from the COVID vaccine batches.

The second chart below shows the number of adverse events in the Pfizer deployment of vaccine batches. The vertical axis is number of adverse events, including deaths. The horizontal axis is the chronological deployment of batches, by batch issue date.

[TRANSCRIPT OF DR. YEADON’S KEY TESTIMONY ON COVID VACCINE BATCH LETHALITY, FEBRUARY 2022]

Figure 1. Below source: Yeadon presentation, normal distribution of adverse events in flu vaccine over large number of batches. (Click for larger image)

Figure 2. Below: Reported deaths by batch of COVID mRNA injection, earlier batches first. ( Click for larger image)

“Dose Range Finding”

Upon examining the data, originally brought to light by Craig Paardekooper, Dr. Yeadon said that, as a pharmaceuticals scientist, he immediately recognized a process called “dose range finding.” In dose range finding, varying strengths of dosage are administered in order to accurately peg the number of deaths and injuries which can be associated with each dosage level. “Maximum tolerable dose” is what does not kill the test animal immediately. One of Dr. Yeadon’s specialties at Pfizer was toxicology, which involves these methods.

The Expose in “Death by Covid Injection Is Premeditated and Co-ordinated…” writes:

“A dose-ranging study is a clinical trial where different doses of an agent (e.g., a drug) are tested against each other to establish which dose works best and/or is least harmful. However, in the case of the experimental Covid injections this is being used for the opposite reasons: to establish which dose is most harmful.”

As can be seen in Figure 2, batch deadliness forms a progressive line sloping downward, as if early batches start out at high dosage strength, killing many, and then are cut down in a methodical manner. Yeadon and Wodarg say this would never happen unless planned this way, since drugs are manufactured to be the same dose and formula across thousands of batches and billions of doses, with an extraordinarily high level of precision. The miracle of modern pharmacology is that billions of pills of a product, like aspirin, are exactly the same strength to many decimal places.

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Also Read: Prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) Says COVID Vaccines Are 20 Times More Dangerous Than COVID

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Dr. Yeadon noted that companies like Pfizer, for which he was once a Vice President, and Chief Science Officer (CSO) are very good at this. Therefore the wide variance in batch deadliness can only be deliberate. Moreover, a data pattern like this in the CDC’s VAERS reports should have triggered the FDA to bring all COVID mRNA vaccines to a halt long ago.

Dose-range-finding would allow one to estimate how many deaths can be expected for a particular dosage strength, within a certain period of time. Wodarg, Yeadon, and others express being stunned at the logical conclusion, that a massive long-term depopulation program may be underway.

COVID Vaccines Set Up to “Kill People Intentionally”?

Despite the qualifications of Dr. Yeadon and Dr. Wodarg, the FDA has not given an explanation for the data.

The findings have been met by dead silence in the media, though the accuracy of the findings has never been challenged.

In the interview with attorney Reiner Fuellmich, who in the past brought successful lawsuits against Deutsche Bank and Volkswagon, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg says:

“It is not true that there is the same stuff in each shot,”

Dr. Wodarg says:

“Now is the time they can do it because we are afraid…it is worse than Nuremberg…and they kill people…intentionally.”

In 2010 as head of the Council of Europe Health Committee, Dr. Wodarg led an inquiry into the controversial 2009 Swine Flu “pandemic.”

Dr. Mike Yeadon says:

“if you harboured any residual doubts about whether there is or not a depopulation agenda, this presentation destroys that doubt.”

Dr. Yeadon said in the interview:

“I am worried that this is the calibration of a killing weapon…I have got no reason to make this stuff up. I’ve never been a conspiracy theorist,”

Dr. Yeadon wrote to his Telegram audience:

“You’ll be aware that one of our assiduous researchers noticed a short while ago that adverse events are not occurring randomly throughout the batches & lots of vaccines made by a given manufacturer.

Instead, it appears that just 5% of the batches / lots are associated with almost all the deaths.

Given the tight requirements of consistency associated with an authorised product, it’s absolutely impossible that this is a chance event.”

Dangers of mRNA Spike Proteins Long Warned Of

In the Fall of 2021, the fears of scientists such as Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Mainz, and winner of the Aronson Prize, were realized when pathologists reported that autopsies were showing bizarre new phenomena such as autoimmune system attacks by the body on its own organs, in all organs, a possible effect of mRNA spike proteins circulating throughout the body and wreaking havoc. (See: Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Arne Burkhardt: “On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination,” posted at Doctors for Covid Ethics.)

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Also Read: World Health Organization Designed Hydroxychloroquine Studies to Fail in Treating COVID

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Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warns of mRNA spike protein dangers in COVID vaccines in July 2021 (view at Rumble)

The independent autopsies have not been followed up on by the FDA, although tissue samples are available. Even more damningly, the FDA is refusing to release the results of the small number of post-vaccine-death autopsies it has performed on its own. (See: “Autopsies Show Direct Causal Link Between Unexpected Deaths and COVID Vaccines“)

New Rules for COVID Vaccines, from “Prove That it’s Safe” to “Prove That it’s Not Safe”

The most often heard defense of the novel vaccines in the face of millions of “adverse events” worldwide is that “correlation does not equal causation,” like a mantra programmed into a cult victim. The problem is, in the science of clinical drug trials, it does. The burden is always on the innovator to prove to the FDA and the public that the drug is safe if someone dies. The burden is not on the public agencies to prove that it is not safe. But with the COVID products, the FDA has thrown out every principle of good science.

In 2016, the FDA halted clinical trials of a new cancer drug after just three participant deaths, even though causation was not proven before the trials were suspended. The presumption was “better safe than sorry” until the issue of causation was settled.

Below: Screenshot, Gizmodo headline, 2016, trials suspended after just three deaths (source)

In August of 2021, the FDA halted trials of a gene therapy for a neurological disorder, after a participant developed a bone marrow disease. Although the therapy was not proven as the cause, the FDA acted, it said, “out of an abundance of caution.”

And in 1976 the Swine Flu vaccine roll-out was halted after well under 100 unexplained deaths were reported, which were not conclusively proven to be related, after 40 million Americans had been vaccinated.

The FDA’s “abundance of caution” is now an abundance of “reckless,” in the words of Dr. Yeadon. Over what is, in the words of even Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF,) “one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experienced over the last 2000 years.”

The recovery rate for COVID is 99.8% similar to flu, at 99.9%. The average age of the victim is about 80. Many doctors argue that had the safe drugs hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin not been suppressed, and had COVID patients not been transferred into nursing homes, US COVID deaths might have amounted to a bad flu season.

Since the COVID vaccine roll-out, over 35,000 possibly directly-related deaths have been reported to VAERS, triple the number of deaths reported for all other vaccines combined, over 30 years. A study in the peer-reviewed Toxicology Reports put the number of dead by the vaccines at many times that, in the hundreds of thousands. Since the Fall of 2021, non-COVID deaths of young people in the US have skyrocketed, by as much as 40%, even as COVID deaths have fallen drastically.

Professor Spiro Pantazatos, a clinical neurobiologist and researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, appeared on Dr. Drew last October 2022 to explain his estimate that, as of August 2021, the true death toll for the COVID vaccines in the US was up to 187,000, and perhaps more. At this rate, given the time elapsed since then, now the total would be much higher. (Also see Prof. Pantazatos interview with Childrens’ Health Defense)

Above chart source: Bloomberg News

Below: Epoch Times news report, over 30,000 deaths following COVID vaccination reported to CDC (View at Rumble ) (View directly at Epoch Times TV)

Daily COVID deaths in US between September 2021 and October 2022. Source: Worldometers

Pfizer Admits COVID Vaccines Do Not Stop Transmission from Person to Person

This October, in a European Parliament hearing, it was admitted by a Pfizer president that the vaccine never did and was never tested for stopping the transmission of COVID from person to person. The admission wrecked one of the central articles of faith, stressed by the likes of Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow, behind the push for vaccination: that if you were not doing it for yourself, you were doing it for others.

Fauci touted the vaccines as having the ability to stop transmission, so that anyone taking it would become a “dead end” to the virus.

Even as far back as January 2022, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted that the vaccines did not stop transmission. The entire reason many people got the least-tested novel vaccine in history was to ‘break the chain of transmission.’

Below: MSNBC Rachel Maddow, ‘COVID vaccines stop COVID transmission’

Crippling COVID injection reactions (view in Rumble)