Vaccine passports for concerts.
Does the science line up with this widespread panic? @phish@WidespreadPanic@deadandcompany
This is what musicians are discriminating on.
Note, the Ct values of the vax Vs unvax are the same.
Viability isn’t different
Symptom onset identical
Their is no scientific basis for demanding a vax passport.
There is increased risk of adverse vax events for people who are already immune, taking the vaccine to comply to this coercion.
Viability PCR exists.
Why is it not being utilized in C19?
What is Viability PCR?
Aka Capsid Integrity PCR.
It’s a method for only amplifying RNA that is inside a viral capsid.
Seems important for C19 given all the concerns over PCR Vs infectiousness.
There are several techniques which achieve this. The use of intercalating dyes is perhaps the oldest.
These dyes bind to free floating DNA or RNA and cross link it under UV.
Cross linked DNA/RNA doesn’t amplify.
DNA/RNA protected by a capsid is left unaffected.
So why isn’t the testing industry all over this?
It’s well known that your infectious window is 7 days and you can be PCR posture for over 30 days.
5X more people are positive if you don’t do this.
The good news is all patient outcomes were uneventful.
Curious to know the Ct values of natural immunity plus delta variant.
The argument for boosters is based on neutralizing antibodies which seem irrelevant in this study.
Paper uses the term Viral Load but doesn’t really have one.
This PCR kit doesn’t have an internal control. There is no delta-delta qPCR.
Just a Drosten like E-gene PCR compared to a standard curve.
They should have a human Ct signal to normalize for the NP swab for a load.