No it wasn't. Once again, you are trying to stall and avoid the question again.
NOTHING in that link showed that most people died by "guessing". You refuse to post the evidence because you literally made it up.
You're ignoring the question again.
Before you claimed that a Covid diagnosis isn't valid without a test, now you're claiming the test isn't valid. So which is it?
Everyone can see you contradicting yourself in real time.
I entertained you last year because you seem to think you had all the answers ...
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/newworldafros-covid-19-thread.767447/page-163#post-39545598
This is the last time Im even addressing the PCR Test cause you are
1. Cannot distinguish between “live” viruses and inactive (noninfectious) viral particles and therefore cannot be used as a diagnostic tool — For this reason, it is grossly misleading to refer to a positive test as a “COVID-19 case.”
2. Cannot confirm that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms as the test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.
3. Have exceptionally high false result rates — The higher the cycle threshold (CT) — i.e., the number of amplification cycles used to detect RNA particles — the greater the chance of a false positive.
A Rapid Virus Test Falters in People Without Symptoms, Study Finds
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.
from 2007
Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t (Published 2007)
Viral cultures for COVID-19 infectious potential assessment – a systematic review
“Complete live viruses are necessary for transmission, not the fragments identified by PCR. Prospective routine testing of reference and culture specimens and their relationship to symptoms, signs and patient co-factors should be used to define the reliability of PCR for assessing infectious potential. Those with high cycle threshold are unlikely to have infectious potential.”
COVID-19 testing in Australia - information for health professionals
The extent to which a positive PCR result correlates with the infectious state of an individual is still being determined.” There is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests.”
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms …this test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.”
This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.”
positive results do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.”
There are dozens of PCR Test companies that address it...
https://pim-eservices.roche.com/eLD/web/pi/en/home/
One example:
https://altona-diagnostics.com/files/public/Content Homepage/- 02 RealStar/INS - RUO - EN/RealStar SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit 1.0_WEB_RUO_EN-S02.pdf
For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.”
These assays are not intended for use as an aid in the diagnosis of coronavirus infection”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988269/pdf/eurosurv-25-3-5.pdf
Cannot even detect the targeted genes
4. If PCR was detecting the CV-19 virus how did they miss 9 million people in China?
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China | Nature Communications
Virus cultures were negative for all asymptomatic positive and repositive cases, indicating no “viable virus” in positive cases detected in this study.
5.
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/41499534/
Example:
Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts. The challenge is knowing who died of COVID-19 versus who died with the virus that causes COVID-19,” Faust told Live Science.
How COVID-19 Deaths Are Counted
A
presumption of death occurs when a person is
legally declared dead despite the
absence of
direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains
Presumed Dead but using it as a missing person or john doe
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86127
Last week, the CDC updated its case counts to
include probable COVID-19 deaths -- that is, those without a confirmed positive test -- in the nationwide tally.
While many infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists believe that the addition of probable cases will more accurately reflect the COVID-19 death toll, how to go about it remains uncertain.
6. Once again you are trying so desperately to catch me in some "Gotcha" moment. Here is your issue...You go by the standard rules( believe the authorities, etc) so I just use the very definitions and explanations that the authorities used against your own argument.
Now....Maybe you can bring that evidence forward of those "Million Scientists" claim from a week or 2 ago.