Manitoba Chief Microbiologist Says Test ＂Unreliable＂
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Summary
In a Court of Queens Bench hearing in preparation for trial, Dr. Jared Bullard, Chief Microbiologist and Laboratory Specialist and Witness for the Manitoba Government, stated that PCR test results do not verify infectiousness and were never intended to be used to diagnose respiratory illnesses.
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56% of reported cases of COVID are likely not infectious.
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Nadine Wellwood, correspondent for the Western Standard.
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Manitoba government's expert witness admits PCR test results do not verify infectiousness.
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In a Court of Queens bench hearing in preparation for trial, the Justice Center for Constitutional
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Freedoms versus the government of Manitoba, Dr. Jared Bullard, Chief Microbiologist and
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Laboratory Specialist and witness for the Manitoba government stated, PCR test results
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do not verify infectiousness and were never intended to be used to diagnose respiratory
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Dr. Bullard testified that the most accurate way to determine whether someone is actually
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infectious with COVID is to attempt to grow a cell culture in the lab from a patient sample.
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If the cell culture will not grow the virus in the lab, a patient is most likely not infectious.
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A study conducted by Dr. Bullard and his colleagues found that only 44% of positive PCR test result
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Another way you could state this, 56% of reported cases of COVID are likely not infectious.
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If Dr. Bullard's findings are correct, this calls into questions the practice used not
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only in Manitoba, but every province in Canada, the use of the PCR test and classifying positive
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Positive PCR test results are identified currently as a case and have been used to imply infectivity,
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which according to Dr. Bullard's own admission is incorrect and inaccurate.
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It is worthy of mention here that some Canadian news agencies have actually quoted Dr. Bullard
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as having testified that a positive PCR test indicates infectivity 99.9% of the time.
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Dr. Bullard actually testified that a PCR test will detect any viral NRA that is present in
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However, determining whether or not a sample is actually infectious, meaning containing the
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viable virus and capable of replicating, needs to be confirmed by lab culture.
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As noted, only 44% of all positive samples using a CT cycle threshold of 18 returned a viable
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lab culture and samples tested at a CT of over 25, according to Dr. Bullard's report, produced
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He went on to say that while a person with COVID is infectious for a one to two week period,
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non-viable, harmless, SARS-CoV-2 fragments can be detected by a PCR test for up to 100 days
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after exposure and that PCR tests do nothing more than confirm the presence of fragments
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Dr. Bullard admitted that Manitoba has known for some time that a given PCR test CT value
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is inversely correlated with infectiousness, meaning that testing for COVID as higher threshold
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Dr. Bullard has confirmed that it utilizes CTs of up to 40 and even 45 in some cases.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Bullard's own research confirms that cases resulting from tests from CTs of
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The Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms called upon their own medical experts, Dr. J.
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Bachachara, world-famous epidemiologist and professor of medicine from Stanford University,
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and Dr. Thomas Warren, infectious disease specialist and medical microbiologist, both who presented
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evidence that PCR test is unreliable in determining whether a person is infectious with the actual
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The onus is now on the government of Manitoba to justify its restrictions on charter rights
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and freedoms as being reasonable, necessary, and beneficial.
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The outcome of this case will have tremendous implications on all levels of government in
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Canada that have ignored multiple warnings and alternative viewpoints of medical experts
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and others, instead choosing unilaterally to impose restrictive lockdown measures based
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upon PCR test results of reported positive cases that may prove to be overstated and inaccurate.