#1 PCR test cycles are being ran in to the 40's which should never happen.
#2 Every positive PCR test is being counted as a covid case - this is inflating the numbers, which the news reports and causes panic, and then some pearl clutching fool goes on the internet and says how scared they are about being able to play football in 2 months.
This is fraud.
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.
www.nytimes.com
"Unfortunately, results from the US are showing that cycling thresholds (CT) in the US are too sensitive, as many of them have set the limit at 37 to 40. At these thresholds, the tests are able to detect genetic fragments from past infections which no longer pose risks. For Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, a CT beyond 35 is already too sensitive.
Meanwhile, the CDC has said that it can no longer detect any live virus in a sample processed at thresholds above 33. A more reasonable cutoff would be at 30 and below. A statement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows that the government does not specify the CT, and it is the laboratories and commercial manufacturers that determine it.
Moreover, the New York Times discovered that a majority of test results sent to doctors do not indicate the CT, which is important data that could inform how they deal with a patient.
Mandavilli also reports on tests conducted by two laboratories. Analysis of the tests processed by the Wadsworth Center shows that in July, the lab identified 794 positive tests using a threshold of 40 cycles. Using 35 as CT, positive results dropped by almost half, and about 70% of tests were no longer judged to be positive with a threshold of 30 cycles. A similar result was recorded in Massachusetts. 85-90% of people who tested positive in July using a CT of 40 were judged to be negative when CT was lowered to 30 cycles."
It should be noted that this article is from a huge panic pusher for the NYT.
In this WHO article they discuss the increase in false positives for people with no symptoms because they're running the cycles too high.
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05
Maybe you forgot all this stuff. But I'm pretty sure we've discussed it before. Your notion that the PCR test virtually eliminates false positives is complete garbage.
If people want to get booster shots that's on them. It'll just make my pfizer stock go up.
Maybe we can build some more field hospitals that we'll never use - after all, the delta variant is more contagious right?