The COVID-19 test being used to determine who is positive with COVID-19 is called a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. It can detect minute amounts of viral genetic material in a single sample — and the results of these tests are what many state governors are using to issue mask mandates and lockdowns.
The only problem is that the test is not perfect and, in some cases when follow-ups were done, it turned out that as many as 90% of people who tested positive actually under a PCR test didn’t have COVID at all. The errors are due to the way the test is cycled: The larger the number of cycles used to complete the test, the more false “positives” it will return.
Therefore, a test with a lower cycle threshold is more apt to tell whether or not a person is actually infected with COVID. Unfortunately, not everybody is using the low-threshold testing procedures. And, presently, even though health authorities know that false positives occur with higher thresholds, they aren’t reporting what the cycle threshold was for the PCR tests they’re reporting.
That’s about to change in Florida, which just became the first state to require that all labs in the state report the cycle threshold they use for their PCR tests. The Florida Health Department issued the edict December 3, 2020. In Europe, meanwhile, a court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR test is “not a reliable test for SARS-CoV-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on the results is unlawful.”
SOURCE: ZeroHedge December 7, 2020