As many Americans recover, the media is pushing their propaganda narrative that covid cases are once again surging.

The media is oblivious, either ignorantly or deliberately, to the reality that positive tests are not the same thing as cases.

A “case” has a specific definition, apparently beyond the intellectual grasp of Wolf Blitzer or Lester Holt.

The CDC defines a case not just as a positive test. Instead, what is needed is “presumptive laboratory evidence and either clinical criteria or epidemiologic evidence.”

The covid surges are positive tests and even those are suspect unless those who te positive are actually ill.

CURIOUS ABOUT drive-by testing, I gave it a whirl. It only took about 20 minutes and was free, meaning I got what I paid for.

Results were promised in 3 days but took just over 7 to find out I was virus free.

Given the sensitivity of the covid PCR tes it is likely that some of those being tested without symptoms or exposure will be reported as tested positive.

Saying someone with a positive covid tes is a “case” is fraudulent.

For comparison, blood glucose has an upper test limit of 140. Is everyone above that number a diabetic? Even if they just ate a doughnut or ice cream cone before testing? Or does it take more than a single blood glucose level before one is diagnosed with diabetes? Does a single elevated blood pressure test make one hypertensive? No.

COVID IS TESTED using PCR which amplifies any viral fragments found in the nose repeatedly until the test is positive. This is called the amplification cycle. The higher that number the more likely a positive test will result, even if clinically insignificant.

The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying reatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of them are not likely to be contagious and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time.

The amplification cycle is the problem.

The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles. The fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus in the sample. The greater the amount, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.

Most commercial tests set the threshold a 40. It would be more clinically meaningful if it was much lower, say at 30.

Tests with high thresholds may detect no just live virus but also genetic fragments from infection that pose no particular risk.

The CDC’s calculations suggest it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles.

With an overly sensitive test, almost 90% of the surge is fake news to justify unnecessary lockdowns and business closures.

This is easily understandable science and arithmetic. If the CDC can figure it out and acknowledge it, journalists can and should be asking questions in their surge reports.

Unmentioned by the media is that PCR testing was not designed to screen for viral infection. Don’t take my word for it. That’s the opinion of Kary Mullis who invented PCR and won a Nobel Prize for it.

Keep your eye on the big media con that things are worse than they really are.

Dr.. Joondeph is a Denver-based physician and writer for American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports.