A person knowledgeable enough to determine nucleotide similarity between human and virus would be knowledgeable enough to know that this string of identical nucleotides has zero implications for the PCR tests.
You would think so. I learned about this from some anonymous poster in another forum, and s/he also didn't know that: a) there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of primers in use, so even if one kit could hypothetically detect human DNA, most would not; and b) of course, two primers are needed, so a single primer with a sequence capable of hybridizing to human DNA would not help.
However, I just learned that this was mentioned in a WHO document on primer design. It was an actual proposed primer. AFAIK, they don't point out the identity with human sequence. Maybe a Mikovits type found this, and passed it on to someone not familiar with the details.
Interesting that we now have this article, but not scientific proof.
Sweden does not have herd immunity. Even Stockholm is far short of that, let alone the rest of the country. Notice the article says, "a form of herd immunity". What they presumably mean is that if a substantial % of people have been infected and recovered, they spread of the virus will be reduced. The same phenomenon is probably occurring in NYC, where I'd bet that a larger proportion of people have been infected than in Stockholm.
CP lacks that standard partly because it has been used so ubiquitously under compassionate use. 35,000 people have gotten it according to reports, but there has been no control group to compare the end points to.
It seems that all they did was compare early vs. late treatment, but did not compare these groups with no treatment.
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