This photo, taken on May 12, 2020, shows a World Health Organization (WHO) sign in Geneva next to its headquarters amid the outbreak of COVID-19. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED 12:50 pm PT – Saturday, January 23, 2021
The CDC has reported more than 24.5 million positive cases of COVID-19 in the United States since March. This number was calculated by means of PCR tests with a nasal smear, which until the opening day were considered the gold standard by the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control.
However, a new statement released by the World Health Organization suggests that a simple positive test result for a nose swab is not enough to confirm a positive case.
That ad stated: “Most CRP trials are indicated as a diagnostic aid, so healthcare professionals should consider any results in combination with the time of sampling, type of sample, specific trial data, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts and epidemiological information. ”
Although the reliability of nose smear PCR tests has long been known to be problematic, many are now questioning why WHO suddenly stopped using a positive PCR test result as a confirmation of infection. In previous pandemics, data on CRP tests were so unstable that WHO did not even consider the test to be a valid indication of infection.
As former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson explained, PCR tests use samples from the nose and then multiply the contents of those samples until a fluorescence added to the sample begins to appear, indicating the presence of COVID-19.
“A 40-cycle PCR test means that you are multiplying the original, any original viral material in that sample, by 1 trillion times,” said Berenson. “Okay, so a single viral particle that you take becomes 1 trillion particles, it is very easy to find viruses in people when you are running a PCR cycle at that level.”
This 40-cycle protocol, which multiplies samples by 1 trillion times, is currently used by the vast majority of test sites and hospitals. However, Dr. Shawn Ferullo of MIT said that if your test is truly positive in the 40th cycle, your viral load is “so low that you are not infected and cannot pass the virus on to others”.
With this WHO announcement, the COVID-19 tests under the Biden administration will be under much more intense scrutiny, which means that test results will take much longer and new cases will decline rapidly. That is, only if the CDC immediately follows the new standard established by the World Health Organization.