From reddit, posted as backup.
Deaths WITH COVID:
The UK government and the devolved administrations have agreed to publish the number of deaths that occurred within 28 days of a positive lab-confirmed COVID test result on a daily basis.
New UK-wide methodology agreed to record COVID-19 deaths
A death due to COVID-19 is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). There should be no period of complete recovery from COVID-19 between illness and death.
A death due to COVID-19 may not be attributed to another disease (e.g. cancer) and should be counted independently of preexisting conditions that are suspected of triggering a severe course of COVID-19.
WHO International Guidelines for Certification and Classification (Coding) of COVID-19 as Cause of Death
If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.
Dr. Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
The case definition is very simplistic: It means at the time of death, it was a COVID-positive diagnosis. So, that means that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means that, technically, even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it's still listed as a COVID death.
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Illinois COVID Task Force
Examples of Bullshit COVID Deaths:
A builder who died after falling from a 10ft ladder was actually killed by Covid-19, scientists have claimed.
Academics at the University of Zagreb said the Covid-induced illness had caused his fall, which they argued meant the death must be recorded as a Covid-19 fatality under World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
There are significant concerns that the number of Covid-19 deaths may have been over-inflated worldwide by miscounting.
Builder, 51, who died after falling from a 10ft ladder was actually killed by coronavirus, doctors say
If someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 commits suicide, the Ontario Ministry of Health will record their cause of death as COVID-19.
“As a result of how data is recorded by health units into public health information databases, the ministry is not able to accurately separate how many people died directly because of COVID versus those who died with a COVID infection.”
Ontario counts suicide victims as COVID-19 fatalities
The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds.
Bock says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as “deaths among cases.”
Grand County Coroner Raises Concern On Deaths Among COVID Cases
FOX 35 News found this out after asking Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino whether two coronavirus victims who were in their 20s had any underlying conditions. One of his answers surprised us. “The first one didn’t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident,” Pino said.
Questions raised after fatal motorcycle crash listed as COVID-19 death
Bollocks COVID Test:
A specimen is considered negative if all 2019-nCoV marker (N1, N2) cycle threshold growth curves DO NOT cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles.
CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel - Instructions for Use
A typical RT-PCR assay will have a maximum of 40 thermal cycles.
Understanding cycle threshold (Ct) in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR
Anything over 35 [thermal cycles] is dead nucleotide.
Fauci on Cycle Thresholds of the PCR Test
WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load.
WHO Information Notice for IVD Users 2020/05 (Posted moments after Biden's inauguration and is the reason for the drastic drop in cases shortly afterwards.)
Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 872 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles.
With a cutoff of 35, about 43 percent of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 63 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30.
In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said.
Other experts informed of these numbers were stunned.
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The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.
[The PCR test] doesn't tell you that you're sick.
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[Using the PCR test,] you can find almost anything in anybody.
Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test
In their ruling, judges Margarida Ramos de Almeida and Ana Paramés referred to several scientific studies. Most notably this study by Jaafar et al., which found that – when running PCR tests with 35 cycles or more – the accuracy dropped to 3%, meaning up to 97% of positive results could be false positives.
The ruling goes on to conclude that, based on the science they read, any PCR test using over 25 cycles is totally unreliable. Governments and private labs have been very tight-lipped about the exact number of cycles they run when PCR testing, but it is known to sometimes be as high as 45. Even fearmonger-in-chief Anthony Fauci has publicly stated anything over 35 is totally unusable.
Portuguese court rules PCR tests unreliable and lockdowns unlawful.
An attempt has been made to estimate the likely false-positive rate of national COVID-19 testing programmes by examining data from published external quality assessments (EQAs) for RT-PCR assays for other RNA viruses carried out between 2004-2019 [7]. Results of 43 EQAs were examined, giving a median false positive rate of 2.3% (interquartile range 0.8-4.0%).
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DHSC figures [3] show that 100,664 tests were carried out on 31 May 2020 (Pillar 1 and 2 RT-PCR tests). 1,570 of those tests were positive for SARS-CoV-2 (1.6%). The majority of people tested on that day did not have SARS-CoV-2 (98.4% of tests are negative). When only a small proportion of people being tested have the virus, the operational false positive rate becomes very important. Clearly the false positive rate cannot exceed 1.6% on that day, and is likely to be much lower. If the operational false positive rate was 0.4%, 400 of the 1,570 positive tests would be false positives. That would represent 400 people being isolated when they are well, and much wasted effort in contact tracing. It is possible that a proportion of infections that we currently view as asymptomatic may in fact be due to these false positives.
Impact of false-positives and false-negatives in the UK’s COVID-19 RT-PCR testing programme
Note the 0.4% false-positive rate used in the example - that's half the lower quartile. Even using a low estimate, a quarter of all positives would've been false positives on that day.
It's a scam, folks...
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