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Horowitz: CDC issues guidance for evaluating post-vaccination COVID tests at a lower standard
The Blaze ^ | April 30, 2021 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 05/04/2021 5:03:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

....In a notice on its "COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough case investigation," the CDC announced its plan to study the prevalence of "breakthrough cases," meaning those who contract the virus even after having been vaccinated. Yesterday, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson noticed this little gem in the guidance for determining those infected post-vaccination: "Clinical specimens for sequencing should have an RT-PCR Ct value ≤28."

Alas, the CDC has suddenly discovered the power of cycle thresholds on PCR testing in determining whether the positive results are real or meaningful. But here's the problem: Where is this guidance when it comes to non-vaccinated people? As Berenson points out, a standard of 28 CTs applied to the general testing regime would preclude as many as 90% of cases from being recorded, especially when the virus is in low circulation.....

In a notice on its "COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough case investigation," the CDC announced its plan to study the prevalence of "breakthrough cases," meaning those who contract the virus even after having been vaccinated. Yesterday, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson noticed this little gem in the guidance for determining those infected post-vaccination: "Clinical specimens for sequencing should have an RT-PCR Ct value ≤28."

Alas, the CDC has suddenly discovered the power of cycle thresholds on PCR testing in determining whether the positive results are real or meaningful. But here's the problem: Where is this guidance when it comes to non-vaccinated people? As Berenson points out, a standard of 28 CTs applied to the general testing regime would preclude as many as 90% of cases from being recorded, especially when the virus is in low circulation.....

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1 posted on 05/04/2021 5:03:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I’ve already read that somewhere before...


2 posted on 05/04/2021 5:07:06 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

thanks for posting, ‘Cat.


3 posted on 05/04/2021 5:10:50 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Gene Eric

ditto

ditto


4 posted on 05/04/2021 5:17:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: CheshireTheCat; Jane Long; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Secret Agent Man; Jan_Sobieski; bagster; ...

Well, if you can’t find a reduction in tested positive cases, just make one.

The duplicity in this whole vax debacle is staggering.


5 posted on 05/04/2021 5:18:44 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Nuke the chicoms and end this crap now and forever. End the viral cycle.


6 posted on 05/04/2021 5:19:33 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Isn’t this lower threshold mean to insure there will be, in the related sample, sufficient viruses to allow sequencing to determine variants (old and newly emerging)? I don’t want to spoil the conspiracy party, but facts are facts.


7 posted on 05/04/2021 6:02:41 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s all a conspiracy, I tell ya—everything! ;D


8 posted on 05/04/2021 6:24:50 PM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

ping


9 posted on 05/04/2021 6:58:32 PM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Oh, so only now is the CDC troubled by the spectre of scads of false positives?

Shouldst though smell a rat, seek ye its lair. Smite it bigly.


10 posted on 05/04/2021 7:22:32 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: CheshireTheCat

Media has already lost its credibility.
Now it is the government’s turn.


11 posted on 05/04/2021 7:24:13 PM PDT by beekay (Justice for Ashli Babbitt! Say her name.)
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To: PGalt

bookmark


12 posted on 05/05/2021 12:22:13 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: CheshireTheCat; metmom; Gene Eric; beekay; a fool in paradise; GOP Poet; PGalt

13 posted on 05/05/2021 12:27:41 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: 4Liberty

: )


14 posted on 05/05/2021 3:42:20 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Thinking about cats...as i just saw my black and white cat LC run by my kitchen window this morning. Should I get some black spray paint and paint him all black?

CLM


15 posted on 05/05/2021 3:46:00 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: House Atreides
The role of cycle threshold values in infectious disease diagnostics

The exquisite sensitivity of PCR allows for the detection of minute quantities of nucleic acid; however, this does not always correlate with the presence of live organisms. The assay will amplify nucleic acid from dead microbes as readily as from living.1

This was NEVER about public health.

16 posted on 05/05/2021 3:54:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile, a blast from the past...

60 Minutes Mike Wallace hit on Swine Flu scamdemic in 1975 is very, very interesting…

17 posted on 05/05/2021 4:13:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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