> It's much better to have a high rate of false positives than to have any rate of false negatives, so they pumped up the cycle count to accomplish this. They later toned it down.
I not aware of any evidence that increased cycle counts have a significant effect on false positives. To the best of my knowledge, the false positive rates of of PCR tests are extremely low. My understanding is that cycle counts were changed to balance false negatives against testing time/lab loads. If you have evidence that contradicts this, I would love to see it.
> These aren't "breakthrough" cases, because it's not truly a vaccine in the sense that the Polio vaccine was a vaccine.
The polio vaccine is also not 100% effective. Both polio vaccines and covid vaccines reduce but do not eliminate your chance of being infected. In what sense is the covid vaccine not a "true vaccine"?
Edit: We have other vaccines that have even lower level of preventative efficacy than the covid vaccines do against delta and we still administer them.
I not aware of any evidence that increased cycle counts have a significant effect on false positives. To the best of my knowledge, the false positive rates of of PCR tests are extremely low. My understanding is that cycle counts were changed to balance false negatives against testing time/lab loads. If you have evidence that contradicts this, I would love to see it.
> These aren't "breakthrough" cases, because it's not truly a vaccine in the sense that the Polio vaccine was a vaccine.
The polio vaccine is also not 100% effective. Both polio vaccines and covid vaccines reduce but do not eliminate your chance of being infected. In what sense is the covid vaccine not a "true vaccine"?
Edit: We have other vaccines that have even lower level of preventative efficacy than the covid vaccines do against delta and we still administer them.