{"id":175428,"date":"2020-12-21T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=175428"},"modified":"2020-12-19T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:05:06","slug":"the-controversial-covid-rt-pcr-test-what-do-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/the-controversial-covid-rt-pcr-test-what-do-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18 Dec 2020 &#8211; <em>We know that the PCR tests being used are not \u201cfit for purpose\u201d, that they are for <strong>Research Use Only<\/strong>. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was very clear about this. According to the late<strong> Dr. Kary Mullis,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cPCR detects a very small segment of the nucleic acid which is part of a virus itself<\/em><\/strong><em>. The specific fragment detected is determined by the somewhat arbitrary choice of DNA primers used which become the ends of the amplified fragment. \u201c (1)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We also know that Coding changes to Death Certificates have fabricated false perceptions about COVID lethality. CDC coding changes blurred the important distinction between dying OF COVID and dying WITH COVID. Consequently co-morbidities such as heart disease, cancer, etc. have been largely negated and COVID has been relegated an artificially high importance in terms of Cause of Death reporting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ngozi Ezike<\/strong> explained the \u201cdeath count\u201d in a May 2020 press conference with these words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI just want to be clear in terms of the definition of \u2018people dying of COVID\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, the case definition is very simplistic. It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, that means that if you were in hospice and had already been given, you know, a few weeks to live, and then you were also to have found to have COVID, that would have counted as a COVID death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It means that if technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it\u2019s still listed as a COVID death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death, doesn\u2019t mean that that was the cause of death, but they had COVID at the time of death.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I hope that\u2019s helpful.<\/em>\u201d (2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening\/5720264\" >H. Ealy, M. McEvoy et al\u00a0<\/a>in \u201cCovid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School?\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe\u00a02003 guidelines\u00a0for establishing death certificates had been cancelled. \u201cHad the CDC used its industry standard,\u00a0<em>Medical Examiners\u2019 and Coroners\u2019 Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting Revision 2003,<\/em>\u00a0as it has for all other causes of death for the last 17 years,\u00a0<strong>the COVID-19 fatality count would be approximately 90.2%<\/strong>\u00a0lower than it currently is.\u201d (3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To summarize then, the tests that are widely used to test for COVID are not fit for diagnostic purposes.\u00a0 Additionally, prior to the announced pandemic, coding changes were made to Death Certificates that have resulted in false and very significantly increased COVID Death Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>These two factors alone create substantial misperceptions about the danger and lethality of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) John O\u2019Sullivan, \u201d The COVID-19 PCR Test Is Key To The Pandemic Fraud.\u201d Principia Scientific International, 8 September, 2020. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/principia-scientific.com\/the-covid-19-pcr-test-is-key-to-the-pandemic-fraud\/?sfw=pass1604347143\" >(The COVID-19 PCR Test Is Key to the Pandemic Fraud | Principia Scientific Intl. (principia-scientific.com)<\/a> ) Accessed 16 December, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>(2) \u201cTHE DEATH COUNT EXPLAINED: Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health.\u201d 16 May, 2020. YouTube <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\/the-death-count-explained-dr-ngozi-ezike-director-of-illinois-department-of-public-health\/\" >(THE DEATH COUNT EXPLAINED: Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health \u2013 Mark Taliano<\/a> ) Accessed 16 December, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>(3) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening\/5720264\" >H. Ealy, M. McEvoy et al ,<\/a> \u201cCovid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School?\/If COVID Fatalities Were 90.2% Lower, How Would You Feel About Schools Reopening?\u201d Global Research, August 09, 2020\/<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/news\/if-covid-fatalities-were-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening\/?fbclid=IwAR36Dm6y6tjRImqdSSU2N57y6gIDqLhBiTyjJkXmcXMGqhtCbOLJ9fUV7_Y\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children\u2019s Health Defense,<\/a> 24 July 2020.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening\/5720264\" >(Covid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School? \u2013 Global ResearchGlobal Research \u2013 Centre for Research on Globalization<\/a> ) Accessed 16 December, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-169977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pcr-tests-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Mark Taliano\u00a0is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and the author of\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\/covid-19-and-fake-news\/\" ><strong>Voices from Syria<\/strong><\/a><em>, Global Research Publishers, 2017. Visit the author\u2019s website at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\" >https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net<\/a>\u00a0where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\/what-do-we-know\/\" >this article<\/a> was originally published.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-controversial-covid-rt-pcr-test-what-do-we-know\/5732560\" >Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 Dec 2020 &#8211; We know that the PCR tests being used are not \u201cfit for purpose\u201d, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was very clear about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":169977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2124],"tags":[1913,1385,1829,1868,289,555,401,710,1937,613,1864,2186,1102,723,1447,888,1836,75],"class_list":["post-175428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debates-on-covid-vaccines","tag-bill-gates","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-elites","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-new-world-order","tag-pandemic","tag-pcr-tests","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-vaccines","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}