A Deep Look into COVID and a New World of Innovation

(20:43 - Development of a CRISPR-CasRx-based Diagnostic termed SENSR, 33:40 - Computational Microscopy of SARS-CoV-2, 44:41 - The COVID Pandemic and Evolution of At Home Diagnostics) Along with global health and economic devastation, the COVID-19 pandemic has forged an unprecedented path to research and education innovation. Bold scientific advances and cooperation led to a novel vaccine developed in record time, groundbreaking tools for detecting viruses and a pioneering vision for safely educating students. Gain an in-depth look at the trailblazing insights and innovations that led to the broad success of UC San Diego’s Return to Learn program with Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, along with scientists leading groundbreaking innovations related to detecting and analyzing SARS-CoV-2, as well as the future of at-home diagnostic testing in response to COVID-19. Recorded on 02/25/2021. [4/2021] [Show ID: 36606]

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[indrekkpringi]

(From Kevin in the USA1 week ago)
“I am a provider and I also hold a PhD in Clinical Microbiology with an emphasis on molecular testing. I can tell you that using an RT-PCR test to determine positive cases is wrong headed when used against patients who have absolutely no symptoms. A positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 means that the test has detected viral RNA in the specimen. Does it mean there is live, infectious, virus? Not at all. It can mean that the patient was exposed and had SARS-CoV-2 in the past. In fact, it can be from an infection 3 to 4 months ago. However, once a person tests positive, they are called a positive case (with or without symptoms). Then they get all of the contacts and call them up. If anyone claims to be symptomatic then they are called positive case without a test. That is why the numbers are so high. in the USA. For each "positive" case it can generate up to 40 contacts and those can result in 5 to 10 more "cases." I called our health department at the state lab and wanted to know why they put out that a positive RT-PCR test meant you have live, infectious, virus when it doesn't especially in patients with no symptoms. The party line is they want to ensure everyone obeys the mandates so they were instructed by the CDC to put up that guideline. It is false. A positive RT-PCR can mean you have live virus if you are symptomatic BUT if not then it is more likely to be past infection. I do think a RT-PCR or PCR test in a patient with symptoms of that infection are a great tool for early diagnosis and treatment but all governments have perverted molecular testing to meet some agenda. Plus, the US government pushed the narrative that we had asymptomatic super spreaders which has never been proven or documented in a peer reviewed journal article. The few articles making this claim are not peer reviewed and once they are it will be shown to be a lie. You may get a virus from someone who is presymptomatic, maybe, possibly, in a rare case BUT this is not the main cause of a pandemic. The only testing we should be doing for SARS-CoV-2 is antigen testing which detects antigens associated with a live virus infection. Why? Because it will only be positive in patients who have an active infection with virus that could be spread. Why are we not doing it? Because they claim is not as sensitive as molecular. Of course that is true BUT molecular stays positive for months after infection even if the patient never even knows they had the virus (herd immunity). The antigen test will only be positive in symptomatic, virus infected, persons. That is the test that President Trump is pushing out to eldercare and other facilities. This is also likely the test they did on him after he tested molecular positive and then he needed to be checked later which was negative. One other fact. No pandemic in the history of pandemics has ever used asymptomatic patients as a guide for prevention measures or to control a pandemic. In the past, only symptomatic cases were tracked because that is where the spreading occurs (not in asymptomatic people). Why are we doing it with SARS-CoV-2? Why indeed. Another fact. We didn't mask up people (even those of us in healthcare) during the first 3 months of the pandemic. We had some masking in dealing with direct patient care of known, symptomatic positive cases but that was it. Well, low and behold, once the pandemic appeared to be waining, the government then mandated masking of everyone. Why? Why not mask during the height of the pandemic? Why mask now that the virus is going down in prevalence especially with summer weather approaching and respiratory viruses tend to go away (mostly) due to the high heat and humidity? All of this was done for one reason. The election of President Donald Trump. The entire world has been scammed so the governments worldwide can exert more control of the population and make us all scared to go outside. This is one big power play by the globalists and their elected co-conspirators. We had a patient who needed a replacement valve for his heart. They cancelled his surgery because of the pandemic. He went home for about 6 weeks. His condition got worse so he got rescheduled for surgery. When he came in. He tested SARS-CoV-2 and surgery was cancelled and he was told to wait 21 days and come back for retesting. He went home and two days later he was dead. All governments who participated in this scam need to be charged, tried, and imprisoned for crimes against humanity NOW.”

[frederickleung]

Lovely to hear so many times the Chancellor used the words "evolve" in his approach to run UCSD during the pandemic!