The Victorian Government was asked under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to provide “a document that shows there is a test that 100% positively identifies the causal agent, SARS-CoV-2, and not other coronaviruses”. The government response was “no relevant documents have been located”.
A FOIA request in Canada asking for evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated, returned “no records responsive to your request were identified.” These null responses, and at least 165 from other global health organisations show that Koch’s Postulates seems to be no longer a requirement by the scientific community to prove that a pathogen (in it’s physical isolation) is the causal agent for a disease. Today a PCR test of a small fragment of virus genome, when amplified sufficiently, is all that is require to establish “infection” and a thus be a canditate for
“transmission”.
If the pathogen cannot be isolated, then Koch’s postulates cannot be fulfilled.
Is it possible symptoms attributed by COVID-19 disease, could actually be due to other factors such as non-ionising radiation sickness for example. “Conspiracy Theories” will prevail until the Koch’s Postulate’s shaming has been addressed.