Posted on 11/21/2020 4:14:19 AM PST by george76
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“Eyeball diagnosis can mean a doctor observes the patient has a cough, or chills and fever. That’s all. That’s all a doctor needs to make a diagnosis of COVID. That’s a case number. Ridiculous? Of course it’s ridiculous. It’s a con. Brought to you by the CDC.”
this pure bullshit. As a physician I can SUSPECT Covid based on symptoms. But those symptoms are identical to any number of viral infections including the flu.
But I ONLY diagnose Covid if i have a positive antigen or PCR test result.
Pull your head out of your ass. It’s not the Black Death, but it’s damn well not “just the Flu bro”.
I’m completely over the covid covid covid nonsense.
Between the little Goebbels and the Junior Gestapo’s they’ve become a joke.
“Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” has evolved into “Tell a lie too often and it becomes ignored.”
You don’t say, John!
The PCR test tests for the presences for the exterior protein spikes. Many other viruses have those spikes: last year’s common cold, even some of the viruses in the MMRV vaccine. Therefore, this is another source of false positives. There were at least 5 strains this spring that COVID consisted of; all detected in the PCR test.
Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician .. Medicare pays a hospital $13,000 bonus if the hospital admins paperwork says that covid was involved.... If the paperwork says that a ventilator was involved the hospital admins get $39,000..
Jensen .. under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavirus-death-count-guidelines
NYS is counting repeat positives of the same patient as new cases.
Bet NYS isn’t the only state doing that..
“Cases” are a just a general indicator of trends...test more & get more cases. The real crux of the COVID-19 situation is hospitalizations and ICU bed occupancy...both are at their all time highs for COVID-19.
BTW: having the SARSCOV2 virus in your bloodstream does not kill you (plenty of asymptomatic or minor symptom people out there)....it is the effects of having the COVID-19 virus that kill you after you get sick enough to go to the hospital....pneumonia, heart attack, ARDS, blood clots, etc., etc..
https://covidtracking.com/data/national/hospitalization
I do not believe the lying government for anything including any pandemic information or the number of votes the democrats received in this election.
JoMa
And you know absolutely that it is happening because they’re taking tests again and again waiting for you to produce a negative read. So my guess would be maybe 5-10 tests until you prove a negative.
I’m sure they are putting folks in hospitals whether it’s necessary or not.
Dr. Daniel W. Erickson & Dr. Artin Massih of Bakersfield, California.. are experienced medical professionals who have 40 years of hands-on experience in dealing with viruses and respiratory infections.
Sheltering in place decreases your immune system.. and worse..
We’re being pressured to add COVID to the diagnostic list when it has nothing to do with the actual cause of death..
I’m surprised Free Republic would even publish this report. It seems FR has developed a double standard recently.
Because hospital ICU stays w/intubation are so much fun! That’s the ticket!
HOORAY Jon
Under 6% of patients in hospitals are covid patients… as a percent of available beds. ~Dr. David Samadi, MD.
https://twitter.com/drdavidsamadi/status/1320479851946647555/photo/1
It’ll depend on the cycle threshold the lab is using.
In my neck of the woods, you can’t get that info. Not from your doc, the lab.
You also can’t get therapeutics if you test positive unless you’re a “high risk patient”, at least not at any of the health systems in my area.
Explain that one, too.
I hate NYS.
It might also depend on the PCR test being used. Viral debris might clear more quickly from a saliva sample than the up the nose test.
If so, which type of test being used can also mess with the case count.
And then there’s the use of the word case.
They’re including asymptomatic positives as cases.
This was NEVER about public health.
In the real world, a “case” is a person who is sick with a disease and undergoing treatment by a doctor. In order to get rid of DJT, the medical directors redefined “case” to mean anyone with 1 or more CV19 viruses, sick or not.
They redefined death to mean anyone who died, and who had 1 or more CV19 viruses.
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