LEGAL RULING IN PORTUGAL: PCR TEST FOR COVID IS FLAWED

As the Trends Journal has been reporting, the most common test used for determining whether someone has COVID and is a danger to infect others has been proven unreliable. The PCR test is based on how many times the DNA of the coronavirus needs to be “amplified” through a heating process to determine a level of infection. 
The problem now identified is that while in most American and European labs an amplified result of 35-40 cycles is considered “infectious,” many bona fide medical and scientific experts have stated that a much more reasonable number for determining someone is infectious would only be up to 30 cycles.  
This is a crucial difference. As science journalist Peter Andrews, who has a degree in genetics, wrote on 3 September: 
“Data from three US states – New York, Nevada and Massachusetts – shows that when the amount of the virus found in a person is taken into account, up to 90 percent of people who have tested positive could actually have been negative, as they may be carrying only tiny amounts of the virus. If so, these people would likely not be contagious, pose a risk to others, or have any need to isolate.”
Now journalist Andrews writes in Russia Today that a Portuguese appeals court has used the evidence of the flawed PCR test to order the release of four German tourists who were forcibly quarantined after one of them tested positive. 
“The verdict, delivered on November 11, followed an appeal against a writ of habeas corpus filed by four Germans against the Azores Regional Health Authority. This body had been appealing a ruling from a lower court which had found in favor of the tourists, who claimed that they were illegally confined to a hotel without their consent. The tourists were ordered to stay in the hotel over the summer after one of them tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test – the other three were labelled close contacts and therefore made to quarantine as well.”
Mr. Andrews writes that the Portuguese judges referred to a study published by Oxford University Press on 28 September that found if someone tested positive for COVID at a cycle threshold of 35 or higher, the chances of that person actually being infected is less than three percent, and “the probability of receiving a false positive is 97% or higher.”
According to the transcript of the ruling by the Lisbon Appeal Court:
“In view of current scientific evidence, this test shows itself to be unable to determine beyond reasonable doubt that such positivity corresponds, in fact, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. RT-PCR tests (standing for polymerase chain reaction tests) are performed by amplifying samples through repetitive cycles. The number of cycles of such amplification results in a greater or lesser reliability of such tests. And the problem is that this reliability shows itself, in terms of scientific evidence, as more than debatable.”
This ruling is not an isolated case. The Portugal News reports:
“On 14 August the Azorean District Court ordered the release of two citizens who filed a ‘habeas corpus’ after they were quarantined for having travelled near a Covid-19 infected person.
Also, on 27 July, the court decided to declare a ‘habeas corpus’ filed by three citizens ‘deprived of their liberty’ since 24 July in a hotel unit on the island of Graciosa.
On 16 May, the Ponta Delgada court granted a petition for immediate release (‘habeas corpus’) made by a plaintiff against the Azores government’s imposition of quarantine in hotels.”
TRENDPOST: In addition to the PCR test being misused to the point where a Portuguese appeals court states results based on it can’t be “reliable,” the mainstream media virtually ignores the fact that the reason rising infection rates are being reported is because of increased testing.
As the Boston Globe wrote last Friday, “At many sites, particularly the appointment-free locations meant to offer convenience, test-seekers are greeted by long lines that wind around buildings and blocks, through parking lots and playgrounds.” 
The same day a USA Today headline read, “Long lines for COVID testing not going away anytime soon.”
Thus, the more fear that is spread, the more people will line up, waiting hours to get tested.