NL government denies use of CT value scores from PCR testing for covid
But got caught in the act - the Freedom Of Information Act
According to doctors, virologists and other medical staff, as well as policy makers in public health, PCR testing for covid-19 provided not only a positive/negative result, but also valuable information on the amount of virus found in a sample. The so called CT value provides invaluable information for this. However, the Dutch cabinet is withholding information on the average scores of mass testing for two years now.
In the senate, Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that this information ‘is irrelevant’, as wel in a medical setting, as for policy makers. That this is not true, now is revealed by documents made public by the Health Ministry’s own team of experts.
My research points out, that in the Netherlands, the cycle threshold for testing positive for covid, was set at 45 cycles.
In multiple FOIA-released documents now revealed, experts state, that after about 35 cycles, the PCR procedé gets less reliable, worsening every next cycle.
If Ct value > 30, usually there is no active virus and we assume the person is
(prof. dr. Marc Bonten [medical microbiology], chairman of the strategic research program Infection & Immunity, university of Utrecht Medical Center and member of the official Netherlands’ Outbreak Management Team for covid-19
Health minister Kuipers is a newborn politician, part of the stepped-down Rutte cabinet. He is all but a diagnostic N00b: not only a career medical scientist, and professor. Last year he switched to politics from the board of Rotterdams’ Erasmus university hospital, where he was ceo. Kuipers told senators last May, the CT data were not used in policy making during the pandemic. However, one of the leading experts in the official Outbreak Management Team, wrote an op-ed for a medical journal that for national testing policy, everyone relied on CT data for decision making.