The Emperor's New Clothes - part 8
What is the evidence that the (never being isolated and purified) SARS-COV-2 is the causative agent for COVID disease?
In my FOI request, I asked the MoH to supply it’s best evidence that proves that a causative relationship has been established between SARS-COV-2 and COVID.
Now, this kind of accepted proof or evidence is not just any kind of research done on the subject. Rather, there is a set of criteria which need to be settled via a specific step by step process, almost like an injunction. These criteria, known as the Koch’s postulates, were laid down by Robert Koch - one of the “fathers” of the “germ” theory which postulates that infectious diseases are the result of single microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.) that are the exclusive pathogens for these kind of diseases. Koch, described a short list of criteria which, if all are met and proven, establish a certain microorganism as a causative agent of disease (= pathogen).
Ironically, Koch himself had many problems with his own set of rules which self contradictory. For example, the first postulate states that the pathogen must be found in all sick hosts for the disease but cannot be found in a healthy one. This turned out to be impossible to prove as in many diseases it was found that the pathogen is found in both sick and healthy hosts. This and other problems led later scientists in the field to modulate Koch’s postulates and actually make life for these scientists a bit easier.
Thus in 1937, a “new” set of criteria was established by virologist Thomas Rivers, which is based on Koch’s but has some softer approach to the matter.
Here is a slide that illustrates the differences between Koch’s and Rivers’s criteria -
So, to establish a causative relationship between a virus and a disease, one has to prove right Rivers and/or Koch’s postulates for this virus.
With this in mind let’s check the evidence for SARS-COV-2 according to the Israeli MoH -
Translation -
As for the request for proof that SARS-COV-2 is the cause for COVID disease -
As early as 2003, Rivers's criteria for the virus, SARS from the same family of the new coronavirus, were proven to be a factor for similar respiratory disease. Documentation at this link. The decision on the existence of a virus as the cause of global pandemic was made by the WHO. There is in the world literature a record of infecting close contacts of patients who have been closed to them at home and developed similar disease. For example, an article under the title here:
Modes of contact and risk of transmission in COVID-19 among close contacts
The fact that the coronavirus causes coronavirus is anchored in many scientific articles published in the critical scientific press since the emergence of the virus, in addition, in Israel, many patients have been diagnosed with the typical clinical symptoms as published in the literature and the cause of the disease has been diagnosed with rigorous and accurate laboratory tests (which are also backed up by many scientific articles) by molecular methods, as well as cultured isolation and full genomic sequencing of the isolates. You can do a targeted search in the repositories of articles associated with this virus and find many of these articles there. The scientific evidence is in the articles attached as an example and dozens of other articles that can be found at NCBI databases (see image from Corona's online database.)
The MoH replies with lots of confidence that “the science is settled” but let’s take a look at the actual evidence they supplied.
We are directed to an article that should provide the information I requested, but contrary to what I requested - it is an epidemiological study based on PCR diagnosis that has nothing to do with Koch’s or Rivers’s postulates!
An epidemiological study cannot prove any theory or postulate, rather it could form a basis for an hypothesis which could lead to an actual experiment designed to prove or disprove the validity of that hypothesis.
In order to prove Koch's or Rivers’s postulates for SARS-COV-2, a controlled experiment must be performed in living organisms. To illustrate here is an example:
In order to prove Rivers's postulates number 4 and 5 (see above) - an experiment must be carried out on a living and intact organism that is a host for the disease - in the case of COVID or SARS1 - the host are humans. Let’s say we have a problem conducting experiments on humans. So, if not experimenting in humans, at least in the genetically closest organism - for example in a monkey. In such an experiment, the subject of the experiment - the host for the disease - must be taken, and exposed to the isolated and purified disease pathogen, that is the virus (which is separated from any other substance), in a way that simulates the exposure under real world conditions - that is, through the respiratory tract. At the same time, there should be a control group in which the same type of host is exposed to a placebo (say - saline solution without the virus).
According to Rivers's postulate, those hosts exposed to the virus will get sick, while the ones exposed to the placebo will not. This proves postulate #4. To prove postulate #5 we will have to re-isolate the virus from that sick host and only from him. If we find the virus also in a host which is not sick, then we have contradicted Koch's postulate #1. As you all probably aware, most COVID cases were of people with no actual disease. This obviously contradicts Koch’s as well as Rivers’s postulate #1.
Contrary to the MoH claim - Nowhere in the world scientific literature is there any documentation of such experiments for SARS . Of course, there is no documentation for such an experiment for SARS-COV-2 .
You can read an excellent article detailing the issue of no proof of Rivers and Koch's postulates:
So, what did we learn so far on our journey through this FOI request -
No scientific evidence that establish a causative pathogen for COVID in the form of a virus named SARS-COV-2
Never has been a proper isolation and purification of a virus named SARS-COV-2
The Israeli MoH is either spreading misinformation or is incapable of understanding science (it’s probably both).
In the next chapter we shall examine the evidence for the claim that SARS-COV-2 is a transmissible virus and how did they establish the mechanism for this claim.