Covid-19 Testing 1,000-times Too Sensitive? | Watts Up With That?

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Dr. Michael Mina,  an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says that “The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of 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”.

 

My analogy would be the testing of a Motel 6 room for DNA samples, a month after a crime had been committed in it.

 

Just how over-sensitive does Dr. Mina think that these PCR Covid tests are?  100 to 1,000 times too sensitive for the test to return a positive result “— at least, one worth acting on.”

 

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