Does your FOI info have any details about PCR assays and CT for the early cases? The index cases in the US predate our PCR Emergency use authorization so one wonders - how exactly did they sequence these index cases and against what sample did they conclude homology that was used to ascribe the Covid DX?
"Their answer was when translated from their gobbledlygook to plain English "we were told to look for something in March 2020 by the WHO, took swabs from some people ill with cold like symptoms that matched what they wanted, this we assume is SARS-CoV-2 and we use that"."
Just the symptoms given to them from the WHO if I understood their gobbeldygook e-mail correctly.
It certainly wasn't a physical sample of the dreaded lurgy to compare swabs against. They got that later from a University lab in Melbourne Australia which is linked to the WHO influenza programme.
You'll have to read some of my early substack about PCR and LFTs as they include where the UK Gov got the info from to declare "covid".
They also admitted they still don't know if what they were told to call SARS-CoV-2 actually causes illness in humans - the trials for that have just started.
Does your FOI info have any details about PCR assays and CT for the early cases? The index cases in the US predate our PCR Emergency use authorization so one wonders - how exactly did they sequence these index cases and against what sample did they conclude homology that was used to ascribe the Covid DX?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-55622386
https://awkwardgit.substack.com/p/ukhsa-states-that-they-have-no-proof
"Their answer was when translated from their gobbledlygook to plain English "we were told to look for something in March 2020 by the WHO, took swabs from some people ill with cold like symptoms that matched what they wanted, this we assume is SARS-CoV-2 and we use that"."
OK but do you have any FOI info regarding what they used in January to DX the index cases before there were official tests?
Just the symptoms given to them from the WHO if I understood their gobbeldygook e-mail correctly.
It certainly wasn't a physical sample of the dreaded lurgy to compare swabs against. They got that later from a University lab in Melbourne Australia which is linked to the WHO influenza programme.
You'll have to read some of my early substack about PCR and LFTs as they include where the UK Gov got the info from to declare "covid".
They also admitted they still don't know if what they were told to call SARS-CoV-2 actually causes illness in humans - the trials for that have just started.