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The Desperate Need for an Accurate Lyme Disease Test

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/desperate-need-accurate-lyme-disease-test-rosie-milsom/

The desperate need for an accurate Lyme disease test

1607078449009Stephen Bullough before and after Lyme disease

Rosie Milsom

Fundraising & Comms Manager | Helping charities to diversify and increase their income, engage with their supporters, and make a difference

Yesterday, as part of our Big Give Christmas Challenge, we got a very strong reaction and boost to the campaign when we shared the story of Stephen Bullough. I’d like to share that with you now, and the best way is within an article because it’s too long to fit into a LinkedIn post.

His story helps demonstrate the importance of having an accurate test available on the NHS – and a better understanding of the disease from the medical profession.

An 8th Dan in karate and World, European and British champion, Stephen fell ill 2016 after recalling rash in 2015. He had neurological symptoms including seizures, and later vision problems.

He saw several consultants, but no one joined up the dots between the symptoms, and he was diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).

Feeling failed by the NHS, Stephen’s wife Angela began doing her own research and sent his bloods to a lab in Europe, which showed positive for Lyme. Tests done on the NHS had returned as negative.

The positive test was dismissed by Stephen’s neurologist, who said not wanting to believe he had FND was another symptom of the illness.

In 2018, Stephen suffered a series of seizures that resulted in him losing his sight and use of his legs. Still, he got no treatment.

He was certified as blind by a top local ophthalmologist, but again his neurology consultants didn’t accept this as true.

On Father’s Day this year, Stephen was blue lighted to hospital with a Glasgow Coma Scale 3 after series of back to back seizures. He was referred to ICU, but once in ward a doctor refused to treat him, saying that his medical notes suggested the seizures were fake. Luckily, a nurse’s son had epilepsy. She recognised the seizures and subsequently reported the doctor.

Stephen now has severe issues with his heart and nervous system, and is unlikely to ever walk again. He needs round the clock care.

After a recent stay in hospital, a community response doctor was sent to visit Stephen at his home. He happened to be a member of Global Lyme Alliance and listened to Angela’s story in shock.

He consequently carried out a thorough examination, confirming that Stephen has late stage Lyme with secondary and extensive damage to the central nervous system.

He is now on extensive medication and vitamins to help manage his condition.

Angela says:

“To say we’ve been living through four years of hell is an understatement.  If there was a more accurate test on the NHS, we could have gotten Stephen diagnosed and treated more quickly. Now, our lives have been devastated by this illness, and the stress has impacted my health too.”

At the time of writing this, we’re just £138 away from our Big Give Christmas Challenge target. Funds raised are going towards our Innovation Fund for Lyme disease, which will see us give grants to research projects which aim to find a truly accurate test and effective treatments for Lyme disease.

The campaign is accepting donations until Tuesday 8th December at 12pm, but will only be doubled up to £6,000. If you’re moved to support us, please donate via the link below, or get in touch with me if you’d like to talk about other opportunities for support after this time.

Thank you

https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a051r00001fHSDfAAO

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**Comment**

While COVID testing is purposely designed to show mostly ALL positives, Lyme/MSIDS testing is designed to show nearly ALL negatives:

Category:

Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment

How Many “Negative” Lyme Tests Are Due to B. Miyamotoi?

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-sci-miyamotoi-or-lyme/

LYME SCI: How many “negative” Lyme tests are due to B. miyamotoi?

By Lonnie Marcum

July 20, 2020

is it lyme or something else
Do you have all the symptoms of Lyme disease but test negative? Besides the fact the standard test for Lyme misses half the cases, there may be another reason—Borrelia miyamotoi.

A new study out of San Francisco State University (SFSU) has found more Borrelia miyamotoi than Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) in Ixodes pacificus ticks in some areas of Northern California.

Borrelia miyamotoi disease poses a difficult problem for patients and doctors who are unfamiliar with it. Its symptoms may present as viral-like or Lyme-like and there is currently no FDA-approved test.

What is Borrelia miyamotoi?

The family of tick-borne Borrelia is divided into two broad groups that correspond to the disease manifestations they cause in humans: Lyme disease or relapsing fever. Borrelia miyamotoi is in the tick-borne relapsing fever group (TBRF).

Unlike B. miyamotoi, most North American TBRF species (B. hermsii, B. turicatae, B. parkeri), are transmitted by soft-bodied ticks.

B. miyamotoi is different. It’s transmitted by the same blacklegged tick that carries Lyme disease and several other pathogens.

Furthermore, B. miyamotoi can be transmitted from the adult female tick to her eggs. This is called transovarial transmission. It means that baby ticks can be infected with B. miyamotoi from the get-go.

In contrast, blacklegged ticks don’t start out being infected with Lyme. They must acquire the infection by feeding on an animal that carries it—such as a mouse or squirrel.

The research and findings

For the SFSU study, researchers collected 1,358 Ixodes pacificus ticks and 370 rodents from eight different sites in Northern California from April to May 2018. The ticks included 894 larvae, 281 nymphs and 183 adults.

On average the following tested positive for B. miyamotoi:

  • 0.11% of the larvae
  • 4.98% of nymphs
  • 8.74% of the adult ticks

With the prevalence of infection increasing at each life stage of the tick, and each stage including one blood meal, the researchers estimate that horizontal transmission (from mammal to tick) accounts for 97% of B. miyamotoi infection in nymphal ticks and 43% of infection in adult ticks.

Interestingly, the researchers detected B. burgdorferi in 9.86% of nymph and 2.33% of the adult I. pacificus ticks—a decrease in prevalence of 76% from one life stage to the next. In addition, an average of 5.21% of the mice had blood that tested positive for B. miyamotoi.

During the same time, researchers also took skin biopsies from the ears of the rodents they had collected, and examined them for the presence of miyamotoi infection and Lyme.  They found more B. miyamotoi in the blood samples and more B. burgdorferi in the skin.

This matches with other types of TBRF, which are more easily detected in human blood samples, especially when the person is symptomatic. In contrast, Lyme disease is harder to detect in blood samples after it disseminates throughout the body.

The SFSU authors conclude, “the human risk of B. miyamotoi in the western USA may be even greater than B. burgdorferi in certain disease hot spots.”
How this study compares

The SFSU study only included counties around the San Francisco Bay Area. However, a prior California Department of Public Health 12-year study found B. miyamotoi in I. pacificus ticks in 24 out of 48 California counties.

Another study published in 2018 by Professor Robert Lane, along with researchers at UC Berkeley and Yale, examined a biobank of frozen blood samples. The results showed that 26 out of 101 samples collected from residents of Mendocino County, California, in the 1980s were reactive for relapsing fever borreliosis, including B. miyamotoi.

Similarly, another study published in 2018 looked at blood samples drawn from patients in 25 California counties. The results showed positive testing for TBRF in 16 of those counties, with the highest rates of positivity coming from Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin and San Francisco.

That study used a novel laboratory technique that can detect multiple species of TBRF. Co-author Jyotsna Shaw, of IGeneX, Inc., says “we hope that these techniques can be used to develop accurate FDA-approved tests for the future.”

A hidden epidemic?

B. miyamotoi was discovered in ticks more than 20 years ago in Japan. But it wasn’t proven to cause illness in humans until 2011, when the first human cases were reported in Russia.

It is now known to be widespread in North America, wherever Ixodes scapularis ticks and Ixodes pacificus ticks are found.

Unfortunately, Borrelia miyamotoi disease (BMD) is not reportable to the CDC, and the standard test for Lyme disease will not detect it. Because of this, many patients are likely going undiagnosed, and therefore we really have no idea how widespread the illness is.

The symptoms of Borrelia Miyamotoi Disease (BMD)

(according to the CDC)

Symptoms

  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Fatigue
  • Severe headache
  • Muscle or joint pain
  • Dizziness, confusion, vertigo (uncommon)
  • Rash (uncommon)
  • Shortness of breath (uncommon)
  • Nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and anorexia (uncommon)

A recent feature in the New York Times discusses a difficult case where a patient tested negative for Lyme and many other conditions. Medical detective work by Dr. Brian Fallon of the  Columbia Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Center eventually determined that she suffered from B. miyamotoi. (She tested negative for Lyme disease. So what was wrong?)

LymeSci is written by Lonnie Marcum, a Licensed Physical Therapist and mother of a daughter with Lyme. Follow her on Twitter: @LonnieRhea  Email her at: lmarcum@lymedisease.org .

References

Sambado, S., J. Salomon, A. Crews, and A. Swei. (2020) Mixed transmission modes promote persistence of an emerging tick-borne pathogen. Ecosphere 11(6):e03171. 10.1002/ecs2.3171

Krause PJ, Carroll M, Fedorova N, Brancato J, Dumouchel C, Akosa F, et al. (2018) Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in California: Serodiagnosis is complicated by multiple endemic Borrelia species. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0191725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191725

Padgett K, Bonilla D, Kjemtrup A, Vilcins I-M, Yoshimizu MH, Hui L, et al. (2014) Large Scale Spatial Risk and Comparative Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Ixodes pacificus. PLoS ONE 9(10): e110853. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110853

Jeomhee Mun, Rebecca J. Eisen, Lars Eisen, Robert S. Lane (2006) Detection of a Borrelia miyamotoi Sensu Lato Relapsing-Fever Group Spirochete from Ixodes pacificus in California , Journal of Medical Entomology, 43 (1) 120–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/43.1.120

Geoffrey E Lynn, Christine B Graham, Kalanthe Horiuchi, Lars Eisen, Tammi L Johnson, Robert S Lane, Rebecca J Eisen (2018) Prevalence and Geographic Distribution of Borrelia miyamotoi in Host-Seeking Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) Nymphs in Mendocino County, California, Journal of Medical Entomology, 55(3), 711–716, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx258

Borrelia miyamotoi Disease | Tick-borne Diseases | Ticks | CDC https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/borrelia-miyamotoi.html

Test Order | Submitting Specimens to CDC | Infectious Diseases Laboratories | CDC https://www.cdc.gov/laboratory/specimen-submission/detail.html?CDCTestCode=CDC-10532 via @CDCgov

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**Comment**
 
 
Since Borrelia miyamotoi is not a reportable illness to the CDC, no one has any clue about prevalence but reports are coming in continually that it’s highly likely to be a much bigger problem than ‘authorities’ believe.
 
It was recently discovered that:

Also, Borrelia miyamotoi has been in California ticks for a long time:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/02/15/b-miyamotoi-in-ca-ticks-for-a-long-time/

The following case shows how you can become infected while traveling:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/24/a-case-of-borrelia-miyamotoi/

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/18/what-you-need-to-know-about-borrelia-miyamotoi/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/17/borrelia-miyamotoi-infection-in-a-highly-endemic-area-of-lyme-disease/

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Borrelia Miyamotoi (Relapsing Fever Group), Lyme, research, Testing

New Details in COVID Testing Scandal

https://thehighwire.com/videos/new-details-in-covid-testing-scandal/  Video Here

NEW DETAILS IN COVID TESTING SCANDAL

Del Bigtree and Jeffery Jaxen

New details have emerged about the test used for #COVID19, highlighting serious inaccuracies in results and past comments by the tests’ creator doubting the accuracy of PCR testing.

German virologist Christian Drosten’s guidelines on detection of the novel coronavirus for the PCR tests was accepted after only 24 hours of surveillance before becoming the standard. His paper is now being contested and peer reviewed for the first time allowing for some shocking discoveries of error that would potentially render the PCR test completely useless.

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**Comment**

Please watch entire video in link above.

I’ve posted on the inaccuracy of COVID testing many times and that it’s essentially meaningless, yet is being used for world-wide tyranny.  Many have gone so far as to state that COVID-19 is a ‘casedemic.’

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I posted on the current demand for the retraction of the Corman-Drosten foundation paper, which has been challenged by 22 international scientists  here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/12/07/ten-fatal-errors-scientists-attack-paper-that-establish-global-pcr-driven-lockdown/

The Highwire video highlights a review report of the Corman/Drosten paper which states they have:

“identified concerning errors and inherent fallacies which render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test USELESS.“

Jaxen then presents an old 2014 interview with Drosten stating the PCR is an unsuitable test when MERS cases surfaced. He also stated that the test is so sensitive it can detect a single genetic molecule of the virus – which means even healthy people (uninfected) will be diagnosed with the virus. Drosten also criticized the media for creating the ‘pandemic,’ by boiling the matter up. So just 6 years ago Drosten had a completely different tune and did a 180 degree about-face with COVID-19.

While this is crucial information, the CRUX or foundation for this abysmal testing is the lack of a viral isolate from which to base everything upon. This is discussed in the “Ten Fatal Errors” link above and is clearly explained in the book “Virus Mania, How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits at Our Expense”. David Crowe also writes about it here:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/16/does-the-coronavirus-exist/

Again, many will point to the plethora of articles claiming viral isolation, but when you drill down you find they took impure material, called it ‘virus’, added it to cell culture and observed cell death.  Sometimes authors call this “virus-like” particles such as here:  https://www.thelancet.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673620311855  and sometimes they boldly state viral isolation such as when they took material from patients with unexplained pneumonia, intermittent cough and fever such as here:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045880/

But what none have done so far is PURIFED a singular virus from all else.  To researchers, isolation can mean whatever they want it to mean, but purification is an entirely different matter. 

The history of not purifying viruses is somewhat similar to the sordid history of Lyme/MSIDS and is presented in this wonderful interview with Kary Mullis, the creator of the PCR:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/

Excerpts:

In this article you learn that the PCR:

played a central role in the HIV war (a war you don’t know about, that lasted 22 years, between Globalist post-modern HIV scientists and classical scientists.) The latter lost the war. Unless you count being correct as winning. The relentless violence finally silenced the opposition, and it seemed nobody would ever learn who these scientists were, or why they fought this thing so adamantly and passionately.

Mullis, like his friend and colleague Dr. Peter Duesberg, does not believe that AIDS is caused by the retrovirus HIV. He is a long-standing member of the Group for the Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, the 500-member protest organization pushing for a re-examination of the cause of AIDS.

“Every time somebody takes a swab, a tissue sample of their DNA, it goes into a government database. It’s to track us,” says David Rasnick. “They’re not just looking for the virus. Please put that in your article.”

But the real clincher is that HIV was NEVER “separated from everything else.” According to Mullis it is a “laboratory artifact, a set of lab-tortured antigens around which a ‘test’ was built.”

Purification of an actual virus, which used to be the “gold standard”is no longer done.

HIV co-discoverer and Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier famously told journalist Djamel Tahi in an interview: “I repeat, we did not purify.” Please see this excellent commentary on Montagnier’s claims by Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos et al.

Nothing was proven before it was asserted. This became the norm, paving the way for the situation we are in now. Global viral communism. 

Also, please see this video where in the first minute, Dr. Kaufman states that COVID-19 has not been purified, and that therefore no target for a vaccine exists:  https://www.bitchute.com/video/TlxWZHk5yhFM/  The COVID Vaccine – Ask the Experts

Lastly, COVID-19 wouldn’t even be classified as a ‘pandemic’ unless the WHO changed the definition:

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/10/1976-swine-flu-pandemic.aspx?

**UPDATE**

I found this highly interesting consider the above information.  Australian Vaccine Abandoned After False HIV Response:  www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55269381

And this:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/21/redfield-birx-can-they-be-trusted-with-covid/  In 1992, two military investigators charged Redfield and Birx with engaging in “a systematic pattern of data manipulation, inappropriate statistical analyses and misleading data presentation in an apparent attempt to promote the usefulness of the GP160 AIDS vaccine.” 

Coincidences?

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Activism, Testing, Viruses

Portuguese Court: PCR Test Are Unreliable & Unlawful to Quarantine People

https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-as-unreliable-unlawful-to-quarantine-people/

Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests As Unreliable & Unlawful To Quarantine People

by GreatGameIndia.com

A Portuguese appeals court has ruled that PCR tests are unreliable and that it is unlawful to quarantine people based solely on a PCR test.

The court stated, the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present. Citing Jaafar et al. 2020, the court concludes that:

if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the rule in most laboratories in Europe and the US), the probability that said person is infected is less than 3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The article goes onto state that cycles for PCR tests in India is also high (between 37-40) but that cycle threshold in Portugal is unknown.

Important excerpt:

The standard coronavirus tests are throwing up a huge number of positive cases daily. These tests are done based on faulty WHO protocols which are designed to include false positives cases as well.

The test will come back positive even if there are pieces of dead virus.

Earlier, the WHO’s testing protocol was even questioned by Finland’s national health authority.

I’ve posted on this faulty PCR test for months:

COVID-19 Testing Scam, 8 in 10 Are False Positives

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/11/19/covid-testing-fraud-fuels-casedemic.  Must see video by Del Bigtree on this ‘casedemic’.  Another brief video on cycle threshold is also in link.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE
  • The PCR test is not designed to be used as a diagnostic tool as it cannot distinguish between inactive viruses and “live” or reproductive ones
  • Many if not most laboratories amplify the RNA collected via PCR swab far too many times, which results in healthy people testing “positive” even if their viral load is very low or the virus is inactive and poses no threat
  • Amplification over 35 cycles is considered unreliable and scientifically unjustified. Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted the chances of a positive result being accurate at 35 cycles or more “are minuscule.” Yet the CDC, FDA and WHO all recommend using 40 to 45 cycles
  • Recent research shows that to maximize accuracy, PCR tests for COVID-19 should use far fewer cycles. At 17 cycles, 100% of the positive results were confirmed to be real positives. Above 17 cycles, accuracy drops dramatically. By the time you get to 33 cycles, the accuracy rate is a mere 20%, meaning 80% are false positives
  • When symptomatic, your chances of getting a true positive on the first day of symptom onset is only about 40%. Not until Day 3 from symptom onset do you have an 80% chance of getting an accurate PCR result
Lastly, 87,000 doctors and nurses are speaking out against the COVID narrative as well as the fact they are against mandatory COVID vaccines.  All the trials are based upon this faulty PCR test:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/29/87000-doctors-nurses-against-covid19-vaccine/

Say “No’ to mandatory vaccines:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/09/14/community-and-world-united-we-say-no/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/30/say-no-to-forced-covid-19-vaccination-sign-petition/

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Activism, Testing, vaccines, Viruses

Ten Fatal Errors: Scientists Attack Paper That Established Global PCR Driven Lockdown

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/12/03/ten-fatal-errors-scientists-attack-paper-that-established-global-pcr-driven-lockdown/

Ten Fatal Errors: Scientists Attack Paper That Established Global PCR Driven Lockdown

By Celia Farber

Dec.3, 2020

War has broken out in the scientific literature that strikes at the existential core of Covid-19 and its proposed causative virus.

At the heart of the controversy lies the fact that the creators of the most commonly used test, the RT-PCR, published instructions for how to test for SARS-CoV-2 “without having virus material available,” in their own words, relying instead on the Chinese scientists’ genetic sequence published on the internet.

The paper “Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time PCR” was published 24 hours after it was submitted to Eurosurveillance, clearly evading peer review. Its lead authors were Christian Drosten and Victor Corman, which is how it took on the title  “Corman-Drosten paper.” It provided the “recipe,” or work flow for the Covid-19 diagnostic test, quickly applied all over the world, after it was accepted as the standard of testing by the WHO. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Important points:

  •  The paper the house of cards is all built upon is called the Corman-Drosten foundation paper, and has been challenged by 22 international scientists demanding the paper’s retraction.
  • Drosten is a co-discoverer of the SARS-associated coronavirus & developed a test for it in 2003.
  • The paper was written WITHOUT A VIRAL ISOLATE.  I posted on this previously here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/16/does-the-coronavirus-exist/  According to Dr. Pieter Borger, it’s like having a few bone fragments and saying, “that’s your fish”.  But, it could be any fish.  It’s purely a synthetic code & they manufacture the parts that are missing.  Borger also states he tried explaining it on LinkedIn but was banned.  
  • The PCR test yields 80-97% FALSE POSITIVES, and Borger says it does NOT detect a virus. He also uses the comparison of finding a wheel and a hubcap from a Mercedes in a junkyard. You can not infer you are in a Mercedes garage based on only  seeing 2 parts.  He states it has ZERO relevance for diagnosis.  This was recently supported by a paper published by Nature.com, which found no “viable virus” in PCR positive cases.
  • Dr. Corbett agrees there is no viral isolate for validation and calls it ‘donut ring science’ because there’s nothing in the center of it and it has nothing to do with reality.
  • As to nay-sayers stating the virus has been isolated “all over the world,” evidently there are NO CONTROLS FOR THEM. The CDC’s paper claiming viral isolation swabbed ONE person from China who had cold symptoms.
  • Corbett also points out the Corman-Drosten foundation paper was suspiciously published in 24 hours, without peer review, and that this never happens. It typically takes months for reviews.
  • The importance of this issue can not be overstated.  If this paper is retracted the whole house of cards falls down.
  • While Borger states the response from scientists has been overwhelmingly supportive, authors of the Drosten paper were “dismissive on social media,” and Drosten proceeded to personally attack some of the scientists asking for the paper’s retraction.

Most important quote: 

From his home in Germany, Reiner Fuellmich said, “The reason why I decided to speak out is that I didn’t want these crazy people who are pulling the strings behind the scenes to rule the world. I had no idea when I came out with my first video that these people and their corporations were such a powerful block. We are up against some really powerful and devious and bad, evil people. But they’re not a united front. We on the good side so to speak, I am firmly convinced that we have the better people, who know much more not just intellectually. The thing is . . . we’re humans, and they’re not.”

And with that, this article has brought us full circle to where we initially started.  Again, if you have not read “Virus Mania,” please do.  This is not the first time this has happened and I highly doubt it’s the last time.  It’s all simply outlined in here:  https://www.torstenengelbrecht.com/en/virus-mania/

Similarly to how Lyme/MSIDS has been mismanaged using all sorts of hat tricks and slight of hand, we are seeing similar tactics being used with COVID-19.  
The CDC/NIH has a long history of manipulation.

Lastly, Celia Farber wrote another excellent article that I posted back in May: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/  Great interview with Kary Mullins, the creator of the PCR, which he stated was never intended for diagnosis.

Category:

Activism, Testing, Viruses