Posted March 6, 2021
The world’s most prestigious medical journal has finally admitted that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests — used in most cases to detect COVID-19 — are “not the appropriate gold standard” for “public health measures.” The Lancet’s long-overdue verdict and its call for “another approach” to testing for SARS-CoV-2 come months after distinguished virologists and epidemiologists repeatedly voiced concerns that the PCR tests were “fatally flawed.” Read more.