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Unfortunately, putting your fingers in your ears and saying “it’s just misinformation, it’s just misinformation” over and over doesn’t make this RT cycle issue

Unfortunately, putting your fingers in your ears and saying “it’s just misinformation, it’s just misinformation” over and over doesn’t make this RT cycle issue go away. This is coming from Fauci himself: “…If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-competent are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…it’s just dead nucleoids, period.” Anything 35 and over gives results that can’t be trusted. False negatives but way more important are the false positives. The FDA has recommended the PCR cycle threshold up to 40. I would be happy to provide citations if you’re too lazy to do it yourself. Sorry, inconvenient truths like this will continue. No, claiming something is nonsense and attempting to link it to actual tinfoil conspiracy theories will not work. You and your ilk will have to come up with some new talking points to fool people who can’t do basic research or read a medical study. Have yourself a wonderful day.

jhayward 6y ago
Tell us, learned friend, what is the average CT recorded on positive tests today? And what is the false positive rate of those tests? I'll give you a hint - it's less than 30, and about 0.005%. So why, pray tell, is CT such an important attack point against testing? Bringing up CT is just a smokescreen to try to discredit the idea that there is a pandemic. So please stop.
- call_me_dana 6y ago
  I’ll respectfully ask for more than a hint instead of blindly taking your word as fact. What I need is a source that backs up the statistics you just dropped. Unless of course you pulled both directly out of your rear end. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
  - jhayward 6y ago
    https://twitter.com/LaymansScience/status/1345381121706651649 https://twitter.com/LaymansScience/status/134538112170665164...
    - call_me_dana 6y ago
      I know you didn’t just use an image from a Twitter post as a source. This is coming from the guy who starts off his first rebuttal calling me “anti science”. Hopefully you can see the irony.
      - jhayward 6y ago
        No, I used an image from a Medrxiv preprint from a world-famous immunology institution. The attribution is listed in the image. There's no easy way to embed images in HN, and that one was available. Go ahead, keep deflecting. It's obvious you don't have a leg to stand on.

jhayward 6y ago

Tell us, learned friend, what is the average CT recorded on positive tests today? And what is the false positive rate of those tests? I'll give you a hint - it's less than 30, and about 0.005%. So why, pray tell, is CT such an important attack point against testing? Bringing up CT is just a smokescreen to try to discredit the idea that there is a pandemic. So please stop.

call_me_dana 6y ago
I’ll respectfully ask for more than a hint instead of blindly taking your word as fact. What I need is a source that backs up the statistics you just dropped. Unless of course you pulled both directly out of your rear end. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
- jhayward 6y ago
  https://twitter.com/LaymansScience/status/1345381121706651649 https://twitter.com/LaymansScience/status/134538112170665164...
  - call_me_dana 6y ago
    I know you didn’t just use an image from a Twitter post as a source. This is coming from the guy who starts off his first rebuttal calling me “anti science”. Hopefully you can see the irony.
    - jhayward 6y ago
      No, I used an image from a Medrxiv preprint from a world-famous immunology institution. The attribution is listed in the image. There's no easy way to embed images in HN, and that one was available. Go ahead, keep deflecting. It's obvious you don't have a leg to stand on.