19th November 2020
PCR testing – how many cycles are used in Australia?
We know that anything over 25 cycles is a pile of crap. It doesn’t have any diagnostic validity whatsoever (even assuming that PCR test are not measuring something other than SARS-Cov2).
Meanwhile in VIC pic.twitter.com/jwwWoYTMX6
— Franck 🙂 🇪🇺🇦🇺 (@franckverez) February 3, 2021
This is an extract from the 28 September 2020 report in the journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
This is conclusive – that using cycles > 25 is unjustified, given very low viral loads beyond that point. pic.twitter.com/ypBGibGgeq
— Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason & Liberty (@sabhlok) November 19, 2020
So how many cycles in Australia? This question has come up quite a bit.
Page 4 of this government document states that “Each amplification reaction is known as a cycle, and usually 35-45 cycles are undertaken.”
Doherty Institute recommends 38 or more.
In Australia, Doherty Institute recommended 38CT or morehttps://t.co/HSwjfJJOKq pic.twitter.com/UEHWvOcHQN
— ‾|‾hεο IFR 0.13% #FreeAssange 🍀🎗 (@Cyph3rDe) November 16, 2020
Australia and New Zealand are using the same PCR-CT as most other countries. Why are their respective confirmed cases per 100000 so low in comparison to the other countries?
I can only speak for Australia Wayne but our low numbers are nothing to do with the PCR test. We are an island nation and simply shut our borders during the worst of the pandemic. We have kept incoming traffic limited since then. We also test incomers, quarantine, track and trace and even shut our internal state borders when there are local breakouts. In other words we stop the spread and so have had relatively few cases by comparison.