Posted on 07/14/2020 11:57:22 AM PDT by sickoflibs
It is becoming apparent that injecting politics into coronavirus reporting is contagious.
The state of Florida has become the ever-growing focus of activities surrounding the coronavirus and the way it is handled by the politicians. The reasons for this are numerous: Florida is a swing state in November, GOP leadership is at the helm, the press is desperate to cover for the incompetence seen by the Mayor and the Governor in New York, and any good news on the COVID front cannot be allowed to make President Trump look good in any fashion.
As Governor Ron DeSantis has done a good job with managing this pandemic, the media have been intent on only making things look bad. Yesterday, I reported how the blaring headlines of record cases in the state were done to overlook the drop in infection rates and the constant diminishing of deaths by the virus. Now, today, we are learning the data from local clinics may be severely error-prone and inflating the numbers higher.
Local news channel Fox 35 in Orlando poured through the individual reports from labs across the state and found that an alarming number of these clinics are reporting 100% positive results with coronavirus tests. This defies the running averages seen in most areas, which typically are 85-90% lower. The station contacted a number of the clinics reporting these wildly high figures with one of them announcing that their report of 98% positive results should have in fact been only 9.4%.
The press has had a field day over the past weeks raging about the irresponsibility of leaders like DeSantis who have called for states to open back up, and now we need to question whether these infection rates have been artificially inflated, and by how much? What makes this all the more disturbing is every state is looking into how they will manage things like the opening of schools in the coming months, and now we see indications that the infection rates may be incorrectly reported as much higher than the reality.
If this story trends even just in this isolated capacity, it reveals a serious problem, but if this proves out to have been an ongoing practice then it is a severely irresponsible issue. The media has been on a course of looking for only negatives to report regarding the outbreak, both in Florida and nationwide. In the case of Andrew Cuomo in New York, you see the political bias in play, as the press has strained to applaud the efforts of the Democrat Governor. The numbers revealed yesterday that Florida, where the press is intent on leveling criticism upon DeSantis, has a death rate per 100,000 so low that Cuomo’s average is over 90% higher.
This is an example of the malpractice we have been served by the press in this country regarding the pandemic, and if this story evolves into a wider issue it compounds that indictment. If the positive results have been artificially inflated, there is even more reason to be critical of the people reporting on what is happening.
It’s because they get $$$$ for every reported case?
On June 12, 2020, FDA granted an amendment to the Emergency Use Authorization for the CDC diagnostic test for COVID 19 to address global shortages of materials needed to perform the test. This amendment provides alternatives for processing the test:
Four additional extraction reagents that can be used in the existing extraction methods
An additional extraction instrument and associated reagents
A new process that can be used in place of the extraction method when materials for the current method are limited
The CDC memo on the subject can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/virus-requests.html
My question is: Could this change in testing procedure have influenced the change in the number of positive cases reported after the date of the change? Reported cases began increasing in the middle of June, but fatalities did not show much change until very recently.
Secondly, how does the data on sensitivity and specificity compare between the recently approved changes and the prior procedure?
On June 12, 2020, FDA granted an amendment to the Emergency Use Authorization for the CDC diagnostic test for COVID 19 to address global shortages of materials needed to perform the test. This amendment provides alternatives for processing the test:
Four additional extraction reagents that can be used in the existing extraction methods
An additional extraction instrument and associated reagents
A new process that can be used in place of the extraction method when materials for the current method are limited
The CDC memo on the subject can be found here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/virus-requests.html
My question is: Could this change in testing procedure have influenced the change in the number of positive cases reported after the date of the change? Reported cases began increasing in the middle of June, but fatalities did not show much change until very recently.
Secondly, how does the data on sensitivity and specificity compare between the recently approved changes and the prior procedure?
I wonder if these are the same districts that vote 100% democrat?
Amazing. Or maybe not.
Your friend should call the newspapers and tv stations and tell them.
Some may report on this.
Did he recover?
As more and more people become aware that we are in full election campaign, the media steps up the hype about cv19, so as to cast all the blame on Trump.
Probably the same thing happening in AZ.
SEIU and Teachers Union
This is all because the RNC convention will be in Florida. The retards are trying to scare people from going there.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO D.I.E.!!!!!!
A-Holes!
They can shove my mask.
He was “asymptomatic”.
YOU’RE ALL GONNA DIE. Is that all they’ve got? LOL
its being done on purpose
no question
to justify more lockdowns
to justify more money for hospitals as they get paid more for covid cases
to give politician dictators cover to enact unconstitutional restrictions on people and business
to push bs crap like healthy people must wear masks
to push garbage plans to run schools like g-d prisons and get kids conditioned to being under total surveillance by “authority” and not fight back
to keep up pressure on people and encourafe stasi snitching in people through govt hotlines
orwellian
fight back
be ready
The only thing that EVER counts is death.
New York: 32,461 deaths
Florida: 4,409 deaths
They may have reported 100% ‘positive’ results.
They did NOT do it in error.
they still havent revealed who else on the rockets has covid..so the rumor of James Harden is probably true.
barnes says he is primarily asymptomatic..not sure what that means
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