AFTER Panorama’s exposé last week of cross-contamination at the Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes, a PCR expert has told Lockdown Sceptics that the UK’s testing system is “a mess” and not using PCR tests to diagnose other diseases, because all the reagents are being used to diagnose Covid, is “killing people”. He also thinks the UK’s glacial reopening is “madness” and that the we should follow in the footsteps of Florida.
This week, Lockdown Sceptics spoke exclusively to Kevin McKernan who has a wealth of experience in PCR. He is the Chief Scientific Officer and founder of US company Medicinal Genomics, the former CSO of Courtagen Life Sciences Inc and former Vice President and Director of R&D of Life Technologies. He has overseen more than 100 research collaborations exploring next generation sequencing. He was also the President and CSO of Agencourt Personal Genomics, a start-up company he co-founded in 2005 to invent revolutionary sequencing technologies that dropped the cost of sequencing a human genome from $300 million to $3,000.
On top of the contamination risk shown in at least one Lighthouse Lab, two European courts have ruled the PCR test “cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt” whether a person is infectious. Then there is the issue of cycle thresholds. The Corman-Drosten paper, which established the working protocol for using PCR tests to diagnose COVID-19, was peer reviewed by Eurosurveillance in a time of between 3.5 hours to 27.5 hours, published on January 23rd, 2020 and was subsequently accepted and recommended for global use by the World Health Organisation as the “gold standard”. An investigation into this paper, known as the Corman-Drosten Review, by 22 international scientists, found 10 fatal flaws in the protocol. One of these flaws is the high number of cycles used to amplify RNA.
Giving evidence against lockdowns to a court in Manitoba, Jay Bhattacharya, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, cited the Corman-Drosten Review, saying that if the PCR test uses more than 35 cycles to amplify RNA the probability of any ‘positive’ being correct – as in the person identified is still infectious, rather than having negligible traces of the virus in their system – is less than 3%.
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