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Even more bs in testing
Bob_C
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US test is being consumed as binary, though the labs have the ability to show degrees of positive but the CDC doesn’t want or care about that data.
US test is 37-40 cycles for detecting virus, rest of the world is 30-33 cycles. CDC’s own analysis says that anything over 33 cycles basically can’t detect a living virus but can detect a dead one. US test is 10-1000x more sensitive than the rest of the worlds.
So not only has testing volume gone crazy, but so has the sensitivity. Logically, it explains a ton about why deaths/hospitalizations haven’t correlated to new cases since the start.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.amp.html
US test is 37-40 cycles for detecting virus, rest of the world is 30-33 cycles. CDC’s own analysis says that anything over 33 cycles basically can’t detect a living virus but can detect a dead one. US test is 10-1000x more sensitive than the rest of the worlds.
So not only has testing volume gone crazy, but so has the sensitivity. Logically, it explains a ton about why deaths/hospitalizations haven’t correlated to new cases since the start.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.amp.html