Bloomberg is very political ..
Posted on 11/21/2020 4:14:19 AM PST by george76
As high as 23% in S. Dakota:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-19-hospitalizations-us/
My guess at an average nationwide would be more like 13%. But in any case if your local hospital is full to capacity and you need a bed for a stroke or heart attack then that is a problem.
17 Nov: Utica Phoenix: Portuguese Appeals Court Deems PCR Tests Unreliable
By Pete Bianco
On November 11, 2020, a Portuguese appeal court ruled it was unlawful to quarantine people based solely on a PCR test.
The court stated, the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present. Citing Jaafar et al. 2020, the court concludes that “if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the rule in most laboratories in Europe and the US), the probability that said person is infected is less than 3%, and the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%.” The court further notes that the cycle threshold used for the PCR tests currently being made in Portugal is unknown...
The court’s summary of the case to rule against the Regional Health Authority’s appeal reads as follows: “Given how much scientific doubt exists — as voiced by experts, i.e., those who matter — about the reliability of the PCR tests, given the lack of information concerning the tests’ analytical parameters, and in the absence of a physician’s diagnosis supporting the existence of infection or risk, there is no way this court would ever be able to determine whether C was indeed a carrier of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or whether A, B and D had been at a high risk of exposure to it.”
In the US, the FDA’s instructions for PCR testing recommends a threshold of ***40 cycles for a specimen to be considered positive. See page 35 of the instructions...
At 25 cycles the original material has been multiplied 33,554,432 times.
At 30 cycles the original material has been multiplied 1,073,741,824 times.
At 40 cycles the original material has been multiplied 1,099,511,627,776 times.
As you can see there is quite a difference in magnification at various cycle thresholds.
It is also important to remember PCR was invented as a way to create copies of genetic material. Its was never intended to be a diagnostic tool.
https://www.uticaphoenix.net/2020/11/17/portuguese-appeals-court-deems-pcr-tests-unreliable/
following video was posted 14 Nov but, at the end of the interview, reference is made to the US election about to take place, so it was probably recorded late Oct or thereabouts.
focuses on German virologist, Christin Drosten, who rejiggered the PCR test to create fear and the CASEdemic. all about the cycles:
20mins to 28mins: how much can we trust PCR tests etc?
Youtube: 54m31s: 14 Nov: German Lawyer Sues The World Over Coronavirus
posted by Valuetainment
Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit down with consumer protection trial lawyer Reiner Fuellmich to talk about the Coronavirus and his work on the German Corona investigation committee.
About the guest: Dr Reiner Fuellmich is one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee, which since July 10, 2020, has been listening to large number of international scientists’ and experts’ testimonies, to find answers to questions about the pandemic, being asked by people worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpOzHHJmy7g&t=1s
Wikipedia: Christian Drosten
From 2017 until 2019, Drosten was a member of the German Ministry of Health’s International Advisory Board on Global Health, chaired by Ilona Kickbusch.
COVID-19 pandemic
***On 23 January 2020, Drosten, along with other virologists in Europe and Hong Kong, published a workflow of a real-time PCR (RT-PCR) diagnostic test, ***which was quickly accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) who sent test kits to affected regions...
In March 2020, he was appointed to the European Commission’s advisory panel on COVID-19, co-chaired by Ursula von der Leyen and Stella Kyriakides...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Drosten
The original 14 day excuse for the lock-downs (house arrest without a court order) was to reduce the surge of the 2.2 million American (and 500,000 Brits) dying - overwhelming hospitals.. then, many hospitals went virtually empty, sending their doctors and nurses home as there were so few patients..
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, defied the liberal media to say that people are “mistaken” if they actually think coronavirus lock-down policies are keeping people safe from COVID-19... just delays the spread.
The goal of this unconstitutional, illegal lock-down was never about “saving lives.”.. It was about “flattening the curve” to avoid overwhelming our hospitals.. the taxpayer funded experts like Fauci & Ferguson in the UK, said.
Now, corrupt politicians are moving the goal line, again..
I’ve got the tee shirt. :-)
Well, after all, you can’t very well do a Great Reset if everyone is outside watching, now can you?
That explains the four PCR tests taken by Elon a few days ago being two + and two - the same day, nurse, and facility. It’s readily apparent that most, if not all, labs are “spinning up” the PCR too high thereby creating false positives. Guess we’re back to money and power again, the Hippocratic oath be damned.
Bloomberg is very political ..
Your link has stale data.
Looks like hospitalization and ICU admissions have doubled since the 25th of Oct.
https://covidtracking.com/data/national/hospitalization
Need your URL for that...South Dakota was at 23.39% COVID patients on 11-18-2020 according to official HHS hospital data:
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-estimated-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-state
What i don’t understand is why these a...hole conventional medical people can’t use vitamin C in treatment of cv19.
https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-020-03249-y
Ascorbic acid is a critical component of the MATH+ protocol, which has a 98% to 100% efficacy against cv19.
My ex-inlaws are conventional MDs. Arrogant, unhealthy people who despised anything natural.
Ohio’s numbers as of yesterday:
* Hospitals were at 74.9% of occupancy on Friday, factoring in coronavirus and other conditions.
* 735 COVID-19 patients were in intensive-care units. Total ICU bed occupancy was 74.7% with all conditions.
-374 ventilators were being used by people with the coronavirus; 32.3% of the state’s ventilator capacity was used by patients with all conditions.
A friend’s mother died in her sleep in July. She was sixty seven, worked at a popular resort restaurant, very active, with a heart issue for several years that was being monitored, but not concerned, she had been recently fatigued but no symptoms. Family did not do autopsy, Coroner diagnosed it as COVID. Five others in a close proximity died suddenly with no symptoms and was reported as COVID.
I am in the south beach area Of Miami for a little break from work. I went by the convention center yesterday, thousand people lined up and cars wrapped around the block. Most were laughing carrying on in line taking selfie’s, and folks sitting alone in their cars with mask on. Why? They are there for Covid testing to run to the numbers up on DeSantis. The south beach mayor is on of the 5 Florida mayors trying to force the governor’s hand to do another statewide mask mandate.
I’ll never understand why folks Want to live under tyranny.
Former Australian Senator Cory Bernardi claimed that the UN Agenda 21 behind the covid panic was for elite Davos billionaires to bring about a “great reset” that would see permanent social and economic changes.
After decades of peddling AGW / global warming / climate change lies and propaganda to force a global government run by the elites, the socialists have used a media induced hysteria over public health as their latest weapon of economic destruction..
Bernardi concludes that the COVID lockdown looks an awful lot like the ‘Green New Deal’ and will have the same disastrous impact .
Sitting alone in their cars with mask on / windows rolled up ... is why pop tarts have instructions
Chinese “sudden die” syndrome. You don’t feel sick but Covid can disrupt how the blood cells carry o2 with damaged rbc’s leaving deposits of hemaglobin that bind o2 to it which compete in the body with regular rbc’s for o2. A person dies essentially of an equivalence of High altitude sickness. The coroner may have seen the “ground glass deposits” of this hemoglobin in her lungs. The “fatigue” is itself a symptom. The lower PO2 levels may have contributed to a situation that when she slept, her air intake may have caused a still lower o2/co2 exchange(mild sleep apnea perhaps) which caused her to simply suffocate or cause the heart to fail due to lack of oxygen rich blood.
As for the others, they may have been Covid but were as the first lady, operating on sub normal o2 levels. Any sudden increases in oxygen demand due to increased activities would cause a large increase of co2 build up with little ability to exchange for o2 in a manner fast enough to avoid death. Some strains of Covid present differently than others.
You would be wrong. yes we are seeing more cases because of more testing but there are also more cases. Those 2 are not mutually exclusive. Right now we have double the people hospitalized we did in March. The system is definitely feeling the strain. Fortunately the death rate is no where near what is was this spring but some people are still very ill. Are masks and lockdowns the answer? - absolutely not. But the rise in cases is real
COVID test results are binary, like votes for President.
Would not be surprised to lean Smartmatic code is used to tally the COVID test results
Wrong. I only admit people who are ill enough to need hospitalization. Our hospitals are overflowing there is no two ways about it. Less than half have covid many of the rest have medical issues they have neglected for too long because of lockdowns and fear of covid. But i one gets admitted that does not need hospitalization - it’s a waste of my time, staff time, and the hospital will not get paid
Wait a minute you figured me out - on a busy shift where I have more patients than I can handle abs am running around putting covid gear on and taking it off I take a couple hours to go it on the ER and figure out which patients I can make up something on so I can admit them..... Kindly piss off/....
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