Re: Other suspects?
"One way to counter that would be to publish the documents that were submitted."
Absolutely. Keeping in mind that Pharma companies have benefited from financial incentives and cutting regulatory corners to develop the vaccines quickly, the least expectation in return is to waive trade secrecy and patent claims around the vaccines.
Absolutely COVID is a problem and it would be great to have working vaccines. But I don't believe it's that great a problem as is being made out, and I'd prefer if any vaccines went through the proper dev and test cycle to be sure they are safe and effective.
With respect to the PCR testing, there are papers showing that it should optimally be run for 30 cycles. Anything above 35 cycles gives 90%+ false positives. Many countries are recommending running these tests at 40 cycles, so a large percentage of the current wave of 'cases' is just people with trace elements of viral RNA who have no symptoms and are not carriers. So it's good to understand exactly what a 'case' means in the posted numbers. The real case numbers (ie symptomatic and/or carriers) are likely lower than the official counts by an order of magnitude.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
