This is why China tests an entire city of 11 million in a week when they have a cluster of 12 cases. Mass testing is the best way out of this.
Testing most of a city's population every three days would reduce infections by 88%, a study from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and the University of Colorado Boulder claims.
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Daniel Horwitz article says not so.
Beginning in May, the Chinese government conducted the largest mass testing for COVID-19 of anywhere on the globe. Out of 10 million people tested in Wuhan, just 300 were positive and were all asymptomatic. None of them spread it to their contacts. That is
zero out of 1,174 contacts. According to the study, published in
Nature Communications, none of those who tested positive produced live virus in the cultures. This explains very easily why none of them seemed to infect others.
We can dismiss this at our own peril simply because the study came from China, but let's not forget that the Chinese stand to benefit from the rest of the world panicking over asymptomatic spread and purchasing more personal protection equipment, a market dominated by Chinese companies. Moreover, this study harmonizes with other research and the prevailing common sense for decades.
Dr. Fauci himself, before this became political and a tool for control, stated very emphatically that "the driver of outbreaks is
always a symptomatic person." "Even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has
never been the driver of outbreaks,"
said Fauci in a January 28 press conference.
The World Health Organization
said in May that asymptomatic spread was "very rare." Then, like any time a major scientific figure reveals the truth, the WHO suddenly
recanted that position when the media raised a howl.
A U.S.-
based study from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Department of Biostatistics, observed similar low rates of transmission among the asymptomatic. Researchers found symptomatic individuals transmitted the virus at rates 28 times higher than asymptomatic individuals.
Another Chinese study from May found very weak transmission capability among asymptomatic infections.
We also know that as many as
50% of flu cases every year are asymptomatic, yet we never panic or assume they are drivers of community spread.
Thus, putting together all the information we have now observed from this virus, paired against "all the history of respiratory viruses of any type," why are we still pushing illegal, illogical, and immoral lockdown policies all based on a premise of mass asymptomatic spread that is rooted in zero evidence?
This study also lays waste to the entire premise of mass testing using high levels of amplification known as "cycle thresholds." What this study shows is that testing asymptomatic people with high cycle thresholds usually means that they merely have traces of the virus in them that are scientifically insignificant. "Virus cultures were negative for all asymptomatic positive and repositive cases, indicating no 'viable virus' in positive cases detected in this study," concluded the authors.
In September, a
study on cycle thresholds funded by the French government was published and found that the accuracy of PCR tests using 35 cycles of viral RNA amplification is only about 3%. You know what that means? 97% of those people testing positive are likely false. As the New York Times
reported in August, most labs in the U.S.
use 40 cycle thresholds! Thus, there are very few people who are actually contagious and most of them have evident symptoms. The notion that perfectly healthy people can't get together for Thanksgiving is insane.
What a world we live in.
