U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
A growing number of voices, including Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), are questioning the accuracy of COVID tests that have been over processed.
“Arizonans need to know what the cycle threshold is for our state’s COVID-19 PCR tests,” Biggs tweeted.
Biggs has been an advocate for personal freedoms and has fought restrictions during the pandemic.
Public health officials and a growing number of politicians have noted the current testing being undertaken for Covid is inadequate and should be replaced by a completely different mechanism.
A PCR is an exhaustive diagnostic test undertaken in a laboratory wherein traces of a virus can be spotted.
Scientists have found that a PCR test for Covid can produce a false positive depending on how many cycles the test is run through.
“I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside told the New York Times.
That means of the more than 6.3 million positive test results nationwide many may have been false positives depending on if a PCR test was used and how it was processed.
A new PCR test that is resistant to false positives was recently released.
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