Kevin McKernan

Thanks for having me, Claire.

Okay, so it's a branch of molecular biology where we, so I worked on the Human Genome Project.

We sequence genomes and try to use that to better understand, well, in our case right now, our current company, we look for microbial contaminations on natural products.

So if you go into the supplement market or you go into the cannabis market or even the food market, all of that chain is tested for E. coli, salmonella, listeria, and you probably hear about outbreaks of that here and there throughout the news.

So, I've cut my teeth in the Human Genome Project many years ago doing this.

I've built DNA sequencers and started several genomics companies.

And so, I guess what brings me to Children Health Defense with all this is that I saw how they're misusing PCR tests during COVID.

Yeah, so PCR is a wonderful tool for amplifying a piece of DNA or RNA that might be in a given sample.

We use it all the time in the food industry and in the cannabis market.

But what it doesn't do very well, unless you combine it with some other techniques, is tell you whether that organism is alive or dead because you can be at a crime scene and pick up dead DNA, right?

And that can happen on –

in foods in many cases where they might irradiate them or decontaminate them or sterilize them in some way, it'll still leave some DNA behind.

So the food industry knows this problem very well and this is why they demand whenever you're doing PCR that there's always a confirmation of the viability of the organism.

That didn't happen in COVID.

They just were getting PCR signals and not assessing whether the virus was alive or dead.

And we now know that people could be PCR positive for COVID for like 90 days, but they're only infectious for nine days.

So the vast majority of people they're running PCR on during COVID were people who were already recovered.

And so they were then quarantining people who you wanted in the herd.

They were destroying herd immunity with PCR because they weren't using it appropriately.

And I wrote a paper about that and got a lot of friends.