Dr. Mike Yeadon, the former Chief Science Officer and VP, Allergy and Respiratory Research Head with Pfizer Global R&D, is an Allergy & Respiratory Therapeutic Area expert with 23 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He trained as a biochemist and pharmacologist, obtaining his PhD from the University of Surrey (UK) in 1988.
He says that the large number of positive Covid-19 tests is not indicative of the number of active cases,. Like immunologist Dr. Beda Stadler and medical microbiologist Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, and so many other SCIENTISTS, he says that the PCR test detects remnants of the coronavirus in the RNA, but it cannot tell if they came from live viruses or those long conquered by the immune system. There are also many false positives. He says even the count of deaths is inaccurate because the deaths are marked as COVID-19 largely based on the PCR test, which is the test being used all over the world. When you hear that the infection rate is "soaring" it's based on the Polymerase Chain Reaction test. Like Dr. Scott Atlas and so many others, he says that immunity is seen not only in antibodies, which is all that's commonly being tested for via a blood test (separate from the swab-based PCR test), but in T-cells. (Beda M. Stadler is the former Director of the University Institute of Immunology at the Insel Hospital in Bern, Professor Sucharit Bhakdi was the was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Dr. Scott Atlas, MD is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and former head of neuroradiology at the Stanford University hospital).
Dr. Yeadon made a video of his findings. RT says that youtube banned it; although it's back up now. Now who is anti-science?
Some quotes from Dr. Mike Yeadon's article, "Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – the Deadly Danger of False Positives," 20 September 2020.
PCR is not a diagnostic tool
"So, to this article. Its about the testing we do with something called PCR, an amplification technique, better known to biologists as a research tool used in our labs, when trying to unpick mechanisms of disease. I was frankly astonished to realise they’re sometimes used in population screening for diseases – astonished because it is a very exacting technique, prone to invisible errors and it’s quite a tall order to get reliable information out of it, especially because of the prodigious amounts of amplification involved in attempting to pick up a strand of viral genetic code. The test cannot distinguish between a living virus and a short strand of RNA from a virus which broke into pieces weeks or months ago."
"That all said, Government decided to call a person a ‘case’ if their swab sample was positive for viral RNA, which is what is measured in PCR. A person’s sample can be positive if they have the virus, and so it should. They can also be positive if they’ve had the virus some weeks or months ago and recovered. It’s faintly possible that high loads of related, but different coronaviruses, which can cause some of the common colds we get, might also react in the PCR test, though it’s unclear to me if it does."
"Because of the high false positive rate and the low prevalence, almost every positive test, a so-called case, identified by Pillar 2 since May of this year has been a FALSE POSITIVE. Not just a few percent. Not a quarter or even a half of the positives are FALSE, but around 90% of them. Put simply, the number of people Mr Hancock sombrely tells us about is an overestimate by a factor of about ten-fold. Earlier in the summer, it was an overestimate by about 20-fold."
"This test is fatally flawed and MUST immediately be withdrawn and never used again in this setting unless shown to be fixed."
"I have explained how a hopelessly-performing diagnostic test has been, and continues to be used, not for diagnosis of disease but, it seems, solely to create fear."
"Pillar 2 testing has been ongoing since May but it’s only in recent weeks that it has reached several hundreds of thousands of tests per day. The effect of the day by day climb in the number of people that are being described as ‘cases’ cannot be overstated. I know it is inducing fear, anxiety and concern for the possibility of new and unjustified restrictions, including lockdowns. I have no idea what Mr Hancock’s motivations are. But he has and continues to use the hugely inflated output from a fatally flawed Pillar 2 test and appears often on media, gravely intoning the need for additional interventions (none of which, I repeat, are proven to be effective)."
Asymptomatic spreading is rare
"A very long prelude, but necessary. Part of the ‘project fear’ that is rather too obvious, involving second waves, has been the daily count of ‘cases’. Its important to understand that, according to the infectious disease specialists I’ve spoken to, the word ‘case’ has to mean more than merely the presence of some foreign organism. It must present signs (things medics notice) and symptoms (things you notice). And in most so-called cases, those testing positive had no signs or symptoms of illness at all. There was much talk of asymptomatic spreading, and as a biologist this surprised me. In almost every case, a person is symptomatic because they have a high viral load and either it is attacking their body or their immune system is fighting it, generally a mix. I don’t doubt there have been some cases of asymptomatic transmission, but I’m confident it is not important."
