Thanks for this post. I was finally getting into understanding how to properly use molecular diagnostics in a clinical laboratory through my job, but then I got “reassigned” due to my unwillingness to take a covid vaccine. One of my favorite parts of my job was helping to design plans for validating LDTs, and I always had questions (largely unanswered by my superiors) about how do we know what we know, how can we successfully defend this test, and how is this test useful in what context… alas, maybe someday I will again work on something like that. Again many thanks for this post, more things to think about and learn on my own.
I would appreciate your opinion. My partner is a surgeon in Mexico. After a two year hiatus she returned to the hospital on Dec 1. She found out that two of her colleagues had developed covid in the past week. She had some very minor symptoms beginning on Monday and a sore throat on Wednesday. A slight cough but nothing out of the ordinary; she has many allergies. She PCR tested Thursday and is positive. I have similar symptoms, runny nose, minor sore throat but I had what appeared to be a bad cold two months ago and the runny nose has continued on and off. I took a rapid antigen test - negative. I've been taking zinc, vitamin c and spending lots of time in the sun cycling. I suspect I may have tested too early for the antigen to be positive but as we both know the PCR could be much too sensitive. Any thoughts?
We need to just stop testing, period. Let's stop talking about COVID-19! What a concept, right? improve our diets, get exercise, take prophylactics and proper vitamins, and get plenty of sunshine!
Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022Liked by James Lyons-Weiler
Yes, I agree with your assessment. Our state health department sent out text messages to every phone to offer each person up to 8 free tests. It seems like an oversampling bias to encourage asymptomatic testing of an entire population.
Coincidently, there is a meeting this Wednesday to discuss vaccine mandates for children to attend public school and/or day care. I believe they are purposely inflating COVID case numbers to push through their proposed mandates. It's criminal!
James I hope this link is useful. Poster suggests a mechanism for heart damage from vaxxes, but I don't know how to provide the link except posting here! https://twitter.com/Parsifaler
By the way, how do you reconcile that the virus isn’t yet isolated and how does Sanger Sequencing address this concern via Dr Lee? Is it just a triviality? Thanks
It's very tricky. I think any testing regime would vary depending of what you expect to do with the result. Also, tests should be a complement of a clinical diagnosis. That idea that somebody has co vid, or for that matter any other disease, just because a test say so is a lie, a fraud. Population studies are needed before any diagnostic use. I suspect that was common sense before 2020 when they equated an analytical tool (and a bad one) with a diagnostic tool. I like your idea, much more reasonable than ''test test test!''.
100% yes. Especially the part about sending a sample to Dr. Lee. I had the pleasure of speaking to him at the very beginning of this mess and he did such a good job explaining the issues with the COVID PCR.
People who have not been supplementing vitamin D3 properly for months (70kg bodyweight: 0.125mg 5000 IU / day) have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels 1/2 to 1/10th of the 50 ng/mL their immune system needs to function properly. When they contract COVID-19, they need much more than an ordinary healthy vitamin D3 daily intake to boost their levels quickly - since those intakes take months to attain the required 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels. Calcifediol (25-hydroxyvitamin D) will do it in 4 hours - 1mg single oral dose for 70 kg bodyweight. However, this is rarely available immediately, so bolus vitamin D3 is the other alternative. Please see: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/calcifediol-25-hydroxyvitamin-d-or and "What every MD, immunologist, virologist and epidemiologist should know about vitamin D and the immune system": https://vitamindstopscovid.info/05-mds/ .
I follow FLCCC protocol for covid. I have been a nurse since 1987. I was terminated after 31 years of service at Parrish Medical Center, Titusville, Florida for advocating for ivermectin for a covid patient upon family request. Both doctors involved agreed and the med was ordered. She received one dose. The CEO and CNO terminated me and want my license removed. Let’s continue to fight the good fight for covid patients and stop this hospital homicide. Speak truth in love! I thank each of you that are doing the right thing. Donna
I have a few questions for all the number specialists, table designers and statistics interpreters:
After two years of data accumulation in the context of the ''pandemic'', does it make any sense at all to extract any statement from this mountain of data? Does the result of a data evaluation still serve any truth at all?
Why do I ask? Well, in the meantime there are so many overlaps in the definition of unvaccinated and vaccinated, of recovered and diseased, to which constantly changing definitions differing from country to country are added, that there are no longer any possibilities for comparison with which any trends or conspicuous features can be uncovered. All of the data only creates a nebulous, ever-changing picture that, in its constant succession of snapshots, creates more confusion than clarity.
Does it still somehow make sense to put so much energy into data evaluation day after day, if no one is able to produce ONE clear picture from all the different evaluations that could really help us? I don't want to diminish in any way the efforts and expertise of many people who make their evaluation skills available to the general public on a daily basis, I just wonder what drives you? Do you feel that your efforts are really bearing fruit, that something good is coming out of your work for the community? Something that will expose all those who have been lying to us and leading us around by the nose for months now. Something that many would like to see happen, of course, but is always unlikely to happen - at least that's how I feel.
It seems to me that this is exactly the intention behind all the constantly changing definitions using non-standardized tests with ever questionable interpretations on their part. As if the aim is to generate as much confusion as possible in the data jungle so that the general public completely loses its orientation and at some point stops asking questions altogether.
I would be very interested in your opinion on this and I would like to thank all of you who are always putting so much energy into bringing light into the darkness, even if the darkness never really seems to go away.
'People are, you know, quarantining and it’s disruptive and * I can really do is test. So what would you do?' missing the word *ALL?
Ambulatory care? Perhaps the first step is early treatment, no?
Thanks for this post. I was finally getting into understanding how to properly use molecular diagnostics in a clinical laboratory through my job, but then I got “reassigned” due to my unwillingness to take a covid vaccine. One of my favorite parts of my job was helping to design plans for validating LDTs, and I always had questions (largely unanswered by my superiors) about how do we know what we know, how can we successfully defend this test, and how is this test useful in what context… alas, maybe someday I will again work on something like that. Again many thanks for this post, more things to think about and learn on my own.
Get on GETTR?
I would appreciate your opinion. My partner is a surgeon in Mexico. After a two year hiatus she returned to the hospital on Dec 1. She found out that two of her colleagues had developed covid in the past week. She had some very minor symptoms beginning on Monday and a sore throat on Wednesday. A slight cough but nothing out of the ordinary; she has many allergies. She PCR tested Thursday and is positive. I have similar symptoms, runny nose, minor sore throat but I had what appeared to be a bad cold two months ago and the runny nose has continued on and off. I took a rapid antigen test - negative. I've been taking zinc, vitamin c and spending lots of time in the sun cycling. I suspect I may have tested too early for the antigen to be positive but as we both know the PCR could be much too sensitive. Any thoughts?
We need to just stop testing, period. Let's stop talking about COVID-19! What a concept, right? improve our diets, get exercise, take prophylactics and proper vitamins, and get plenty of sunshine!
Yes, I agree with your assessment. Our state health department sent out text messages to every phone to offer each person up to 8 free tests. It seems like an oversampling bias to encourage asymptomatic testing of an entire population.
Coincidently, there is a meeting this Wednesday to discuss vaccine mandates for children to attend public school and/or day care. I believe they are purposely inflating COVID case numbers to push through their proposed mandates. It's criminal!
James I hope this link is useful. Poster suggests a mechanism for heart damage from vaxxes, but I don't know how to provide the link except posting here! https://twitter.com/Parsifaler
By the way, how do you reconcile that the virus isn’t yet isolated and how does Sanger Sequencing address this concern via Dr Lee? Is it just a triviality? Thanks
It's very tricky. I think any testing regime would vary depending of what you expect to do with the result. Also, tests should be a complement of a clinical diagnosis. That idea that somebody has co vid, or for that matter any other disease, just because a test say so is a lie, a fraud. Population studies are needed before any diagnostic use. I suspect that was common sense before 2020 when they equated an analytical tool (and a bad one) with a diagnostic tool. I like your idea, much more reasonable than ''test test test!''.
100% yes. Especially the part about sending a sample to Dr. Lee. I had the pleasure of speaking to him at the very beginning of this mess and he did such a good job explaining the issues with the COVID PCR.
For the lib parents. just tell them the tests are racist and bigoted! His problem solved.
People who have not been supplementing vitamin D3 properly for months (70kg bodyweight: 0.125mg 5000 IU / day) have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels 1/2 to 1/10th of the 50 ng/mL their immune system needs to function properly. When they contract COVID-19, they need much more than an ordinary healthy vitamin D3 daily intake to boost their levels quickly - since those intakes take months to attain the required 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels. Calcifediol (25-hydroxyvitamin D) will do it in 4 hours - 1mg single oral dose for 70 kg bodyweight. However, this is rarely available immediately, so bolus vitamin D3 is the other alternative. Please see: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/calcifediol-25-hydroxyvitamin-d-or and "What every MD, immunologist, virologist and epidemiologist should know about vitamin D and the immune system": https://vitamindstopscovid.info/05-mds/ .
So, does the RAT differenciate between the flu and covid-19?
I follow FLCCC protocol for covid. I have been a nurse since 1987. I was terminated after 31 years of service at Parrish Medical Center, Titusville, Florida for advocating for ivermectin for a covid patient upon family request. Both doctors involved agreed and the med was ordered. She received one dose. The CEO and CNO terminated me and want my license removed. Let’s continue to fight the good fight for covid patients and stop this hospital homicide. Speak truth in love! I thank each of you that are doing the right thing. Donna
I have a few questions for all the number specialists, table designers and statistics interpreters:
After two years of data accumulation in the context of the ''pandemic'', does it make any sense at all to extract any statement from this mountain of data? Does the result of a data evaluation still serve any truth at all?
Why do I ask? Well, in the meantime there are so many overlaps in the definition of unvaccinated and vaccinated, of recovered and diseased, to which constantly changing definitions differing from country to country are added, that there are no longer any possibilities for comparison with which any trends or conspicuous features can be uncovered. All of the data only creates a nebulous, ever-changing picture that, in its constant succession of snapshots, creates more confusion than clarity.
Does it still somehow make sense to put so much energy into data evaluation day after day, if no one is able to produce ONE clear picture from all the different evaluations that could really help us? I don't want to diminish in any way the efforts and expertise of many people who make their evaluation skills available to the general public on a daily basis, I just wonder what drives you? Do you feel that your efforts are really bearing fruit, that something good is coming out of your work for the community? Something that will expose all those who have been lying to us and leading us around by the nose for months now. Something that many would like to see happen, of course, but is always unlikely to happen - at least that's how I feel.
It seems to me that this is exactly the intention behind all the constantly changing definitions using non-standardized tests with ever questionable interpretations on their part. As if the aim is to generate as much confusion as possible in the data jungle so that the general public completely loses its orientation and at some point stops asking questions altogether.
I would be very interested in your opinion on this and I would like to thank all of you who are always putting so much energy into bringing light into the darkness, even if the darkness never really seems to go away.