New Study Finds 86% of PCR-Positive “COVID Cases” Were Not Real Infections
This isn’t a small error—it rewrites the entire story of 2020.
This article originally appeared on Focal Points and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
New study finds that during the early pandemic period, only 14% of PCR “COVID cases” were real — proving that lockdowns and vaccine mandates were built on a fraudulent testing illusion.
A bombshell peer-reviewed study out of Germany just dismantled the scientific foundation used to justify lockdowns, social distancing, and vaccine mandates.
Researchers analyzed data from the Akkreditierte Labore in der Medizin (ALM) — a nationwide consortium of authority-accredited medical laboratories that performed roughly 90% of all SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests in Germany between 2020 and 2023.
When researchers compared the ALM’s week-by-week PCR positivity rates with the same labs’ IgG antibody testing data — essentially measuring who truly developed infection-induced immunity — they discovered something staggering:
Only about 14% of those who tested PCR-positive during the early pandemic period (2020–mid-2021) actually developed antibodies — meaning most early “cases” were never real infections.
Even under the most conservative assumptions — correcting for possible overrepresentation of IgG-positive individuals in the sample — the true infection fraction fell to roughly 10%, implying that nearly 90% of PCR positives were false or non-infectious detections, often just residual RNA fragments amplified at CT thresholds of 35–45.
What This Means
Mass PCR testing grossly inflated case numbers worldwide. Every nation that used similar CT thresholds likely overcounted “infections” by an order of magnitude.
Lockdowns and mandates were built on a false metric. The German “7-day incidence” used to trigger restrictions was statistically meaningless — and identical logic applied in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere. In America, the entire “15 Days to Slow the Spread” campaign was predicated on the same inflated PCR scam.
Authorities suppressed representative serology data. Germany’s RKI and Ministry of Health had access to these ALM antibody results but never disclosed them — despite their policy relevance.
Rewriting pandemic history. If only 10–14% of reported PCR “cases” during the first year reflected true infections, then the infection-fatality rate, transmission models, and emergency declarations were all built on sand. By the end of 2020—months before vaccination began—roughly one-quarter of Germany’s population already carried natural antibodies. In other words, while authorities were declaring an uncontrolled crisis, herd-level immunity was already taking shape. By late 2021, nearly the entire population was IgG-positive. The evidence shows that pandemic policy was driven not by infection reality, but by a diagnostic illusion.
PCR technology and testing thresholds were standardized across WHO member states.
That means the same distortion likely occurred everywhere — a systemic diagnostic inflation that may be the single greatest fraud in public health history.
These tactics were likely used to amplify fear in order to boost compliance with lockdowns and experimental gene-based “vaccines.” This was demonstrated by Gao et al, who found that public fear of COVID-19 (PFC) was positively associated with the number of COVID-19 vaccinations at county-level: “as PFC increases from 0 to 300, the predicted vaccination number increases from 10,000 to 230,000.”
This is in line with fraudulent attempts to artificially increase COVID-19 death counts. Basoulis et al found that 45.3% of “COVID-19 deaths” in Greece were not actually due to COVID-19:
In the end, most of the population did encounter the manufactured virus and develop antibodies—but the PCR data that justified global lockdowns, fear, and vaccine mandates were a complete fraud. Accountability is warranted.
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The funny(?) thing about it was that plenty of people knew the PCR tests were useless, including the INVENTOR of the test.
And right in front of our eyes, they mobilized the entire govt/medical industrial complex to use the PCR tests as a basis for everything they did during the pandemic.
The PCR test, and therefore the misguided "asymptomatic spread" notion, were a fraud. Anyone who had a course in college genetics, biology, or forensics should have known this, or at least been suspicious and aware of it, because the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology was never meant as a diagnostic tool for doctors, but rather, as a forensic tool to help police investigate crime scenes and later as a genetic research tool to help sequence the human genome. All it does is amplify a DNA or RNA strand for sequencing in a lab. It does not tell you if the person from which it comes is currently sick. You might have the RNA strand in your system still from when you were sick ten years ago, and there can be a false positive depending on how many cycles an investigator sets it to. The test result doesn't mean you're sick with a cold.
Dr. Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, said as much and called out Dr. Fauci as being uninformed and ignorant about this issue even before the events of 2020 during 1980s and 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5SmqB88z4
"Guys like Fauci get up there and start talking. He doesn't know anything about really anything. I'd say that to his face. Nothing. The man thinks you can a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope, and if it has a virus in there, you'll know it. He doesn't understand electron microscopy, and he doesn't understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he's in. Most of the people up there on the top are total administrative people, and they don't know anything about what's going on with the body." Nobel prize winner, the late Dr. Kary Mullis