ARE VAST MAJORITY OF COVID-19 CASES ASYMPTOMATIC?

Powerline Blog ^ | 04/30/2020 | John Hinderaker

[exDemMom]

I speak from my own experience doing immunological assays. There can be considerable cross-reactivity between antibodies. I have not seen any data that this test is specific to Covid-19, and not to coronaviruses in general.

This is an immunoassay I performed. In this one, I was trying to detect specific proteins using antibodies. The arrows denote the specific proteins; the other lines in each column are unidentified proteins that the antibodies also detected. Most immunoassays I have performed show similar cross-reactivity. In the type of antibody test being used, everything is condensed into a single dot, no proteins are separated.

I also question the antibody testing because they are finding too many cases. In order for there to be that many cases, the virus would have to be the most contagious one known. However, it's a cold virus and spreads the same way, so its communicability should be similar to that of other cold viruses.

[MinorityRepublican]

We’ve had over a million confirmed COVID-19 cases in USA. So how many people are untested but got infected?

[cherry]

it can be argues that by locking down we've caused more death then if just let things ride out...

the nursing homes have been on lockdown with no visitors for several weeks and staff is tested each day upon arrival to work and wearing PPE....

and yet, nursing homes and the like are where people are dying....

we didn't stop anything....

its time fearpers and pandemics admit it....

nursing home victims would have been better off if they could have had visits from their families...

[absalom01]

Outstanding information, thank you!

[DallasBiff]

Masks are unhealthy and prevent fresh air.

Wore one for the first time yesterday, all it did was make my glasses fog up.

[exDemMom]

You’re welcome!