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Originally Posted by Badger52
Got the name of the lab that does the PCR testing for specimens collected locally at various events. Will be giving them a call to inquire as to their cycle threshold, if they'll even give that information to a non-annointed one.
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Tough to hear of another of Tomahawk's family but wanted to follow up on this.
I called the lab (down in Madison) after also reading that a "state lab" in MN follows "Federal guidelines" (CDC?) and has a CT of 38 for their tests. The same test over at Mayo in Rochester is done at 35. I finally got through to the lab that runs the specimens collected in this area for several counties, as well some that are collected by the NG-supported roving test sites.
After being on the phone for 45 minutes with a reception gal that kept trying to not tell me anything, and kept trying to get me to go to their website and read their FAQ ("BTDT dear, please connect me to someone who can answer a technical question"), I was finally put on hold to be connected with a "white coat" but that never happened. Bounced back to the same front-end gal who took my number. All hail the new boss.
Finally, at around 1645, a nice gent called me on his way home and said he was with their community affairs (wtf?) and could he help me? After 3 times of him asking me why I wanted to know ("curious citizen, read stuff in the paper, blah, me tell you same story long time") he confided that their PCR tests are run with a Cycle Threshold of 40.
Shit, no wonder the case load is spiking. All these numbers are way higher than Fauci confided (to colleagues, NOT the public) would be appropriate to prevent false positives and inconsequential appearances of infection rates.
My tinfoil hat still says that Biden will be the hero. He will diirect some action by all the peasants, by big ceremonial & signature event. Doesn't matter if people do it; important thing is to put something he did on record. Then TPTB will direct the Cycle Thresholds be toned down.
Et Voila! Positivity rate now descending on track, on glideslope. The media will, per SOP, be all over this correlation=causation.