No, a PCR test doesn't distinguish between a live virus and an inactive virus, but only live viruses can replicate so the chances of you having enough viral material in your system to trigger a positive result without having actually had an active case of covid are incredibly slim. Nearly everyone who has false positives due to dead virus (a small % of overall cases) is someone who did indeed have covid recently but defeated it.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.”
But again, you DON'T EVEN BELIEVE VIRUSES EXIST, so why are you posting this disingenuous shyt?
That's like saying fingerprints on the murder weapon don't "confirm" who the murderer was cause someone else might have picked up the gun too. Sure, they don't "confirm" that but they're pretty damn good evidence. If you had Covid AND got so sick you died, then the chances that you caught covid, defeated it, but then immediately died of something else totally unrelated to covid are pretty fukking slim.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.
And you JUST SUGGESTED A FEW POSTS AGO THAT COVID DIAGNOSIS ISN'T VALID WITHOUT A POSITIVE TEST, now you're suggesting that a positive test is meaningless.
This again, is the sort of disingenuous shyt that makes discussions with you useless.
That article is about how antigen tests are inaccurate and PCR tests are the gold standard. It says that PCR false positives are possible but it does NOT say they are "exceptionally high". Did you even read it before you posted?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
You have repeatedly claimed that the Covid-19 virus has never been isolated, then you post an entire study about them isolating viral cultures of Covid-19? So you were just lying when you claimed it hadn't been isolated?
This is why dialogue with you is useless. You have zero logical or consistent argument, you post shyt that contradicts your own claims but then refuse to change those claims.
You have repeatedly claimed that there is no proof that viruses exist and that the Covid-19 virus has never been isolated. So what would YOU consider proof that someone died of Covid?