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CDC Director Drops Bombshell Calling COVID Testing Protocol Into Question
Red State ^ | 12/29/2021 | Nick Arama

Posted on 12/29/2021 4:18:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made a stunning comment on “Good Morning America” today.

 

LATEST: The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @GMA. https://t.co/p6HUxeD4Go pic.twitter.com/TmVaF0eRcG

— ABC News (@ABC) December 29, 2021

#CDC just dropped "new science" on PCR tests
The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks pic.twitter.com/z4aJIGToFz

— La French ConAction..🇫🇷 (@LFConaction) December 29, 2021

The newly updated CDC guidelines don’t require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told “Good Morning America” Wednesday. “So we would have people in isolation for a very long time if we were relying on PCRs,” Walensky explained.

Wait, what?

So you mean that the tests aren’t accurate to tell if you still have the virus now? And that you’re just telling us that they might throw positives for up to 12 weeks, even after you might no longer be contagious? Why are we only hearing about this now from the CDC? How long have they known this? All kinds of people and businesses have been making decisions based on these tests. They’ve factored into restrictions and lockdowns, and now we hear that they may not be accurate? Why, then, was so much built around them?

So they’re just eliminating the need for testing after isolation? How do you know then when you are no longer contagious if you’re now telling us the tests aren’t a good indicator? Then what you’re saying is that you’re just picking a random time to end isolation, after which you may or may not still be contagious?

Can we say clown car administration? I can’t say it enough: Why are they only saying this now? Others have raised questions about their accuracy in the past for the same reasons and were attacked for doing so. So it’s not something dependent on “new” information that the CDC just discovered.

Walensky also said that according to early data looked at by the FDA, rapid antigen tests may be less sensitive when it comes to the Omicron variant.

“We do know that the most sensitive test you can do is a PCR test,” Walensky said. “So if you have symptoms and you have a negative antigen test, we do ask you to go and get a PCR to make sure those symptoms are not attributable to COVID.” Oh, goody, so the rapid tests might not be as accurate either for Omicron. She said they were still encouraging their use, though.

This follows them shortening the isolation period from 10 days to five days for those who were asymptomatic at that point, although they recommended that the people continue to wear masks for five days. Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that at least part of the reason was economic — because otherwise there could be so many people out society could grind to a halt. This morning, Walensky said on CNN that the change “really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate.” Again, sounding a lot more like politics.

Once the Good Guys and Safe People started getting sick, all these supposedly very important precautions fell away quickly, didn’t they. https://t.co/ZYUO3vwUpj

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 29, 2021

Walensky’s comments understandably set off a firestorm of questions and anger on social media. What’s coming that they’ve suddenly come out with all these “truths?” Is it because the “good people” are getting it so the same rules can’t apply? At this point, the Biden team has burnt any credibility that they had left on the issue.

Hi @CDCDirector. Does the above mean that we don’t need a negative test 48-72 hours before flying into the US since fake/irrelevant positives can linger for 12 weeks?

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 29, 2021

Many “public health” bureaucrats have been making this stuff up as they go along for a long time and are nothing more than political operatives for democrats.

Some of us have been calling them out for a while. The veil is coming down. #NoVaccinePassports #NoLockDowns https://t.co/oOvzZzFHga

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) December 29, 2021

The so-called experts have spent two years lying to us.

They destroyed our businesses, harmed our kids, and now Joe Biden is absolving national responsibility as variants spread to the vaccinated.

Stop living in fear and stop listening to those who failed. https://t.co/XtQWVdEW4c

— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) December 29, 2021



TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; cdc; chinavirustest; covid; rochellewalensky; testing
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To: Valpal1
Still, it’s hilarious how tone deaf and stupid our government “experts” are. They just keep stepping on landmines because the truth is not in them.

There has definitely been a collapse in the quality of evil villain gene pool. Unfortunately, it has been matched by a collapse in that of the general public. Ever downward.

21 posted on 12/29/2021 6:57:10 PM PST by Stentor ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

This is all because the "good ones" started catching it and couldn't abide by what everyone else was put through. Don't ever forget this. https://t.co/Mm4BekogVo— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 29, 2021


22 posted on 12/29/2021 7:02:36 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Repent and Believe

I find Rochelle Walensky rather attractive.

Are you thinking of Rachael Richard Levine?


23 posted on 12/29/2021 7:03:11 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Lazamataz

Again, I figured they were a worthless woke political operation, and little more, more than a year-and-a-half ago.

See here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3832892/posts?page=47#47


24 posted on 12/29/2021 7:11:04 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: precisionshootist

“This cannot be allowed to end with “mistakes were made”.”

Why not? It’s worked great for at least a quarter century.


25 posted on 12/29/2021 7:22:57 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Jim Noble
ed Michael Mina who has been screaming for two years that instead of quarantines and isolations for defined periods of time after the fact, that antigen testing should be so widely available that you could test yourself (and keep it to yourself) three times a week, avoiding contacts when positive

I think that's a great idea.

Unfortunately, people are back to running around in public when obviously sick, there is no way a positive test would keep them at home.

26 posted on 12/30/2021 7:45:02 AM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: Jim Noble

I think binax is great for home use, have used them myself. For hospital admission the quad pcr is the good standard


27 posted on 12/30/2021 7:49:15 AM PST by Mom MD ( )
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To: ealgeone

My apology to you, ealgeone (& all other readers) for subjecting you to my error in recollectioning accurately.
I mistook her by name, for a prominent effeminate man who tries to convince everyone he is a woman (namely, Mr. Livine).
Thank you for your kind forgiveness in advance.


28 posted on 12/30/2021 9:30:53 AM PST by Repent and Believe (...unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. - Jesus (Luke 13:3))
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To: Repent and Believe

hey....you never know nowadays. I was checking to see if she/he had had the surgery!


29 posted on 12/30/2021 9:50:49 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: CPT Clay
Bombshell: CDC director admits truth.

There's no way to know that. If they are finally admitting that the PCR tests are crap, then watch your flanks. There is probably an ulterior agenda to mandate that the entire citizenry submit weekly AR tests as part of the coming digital "Green Passports."

30 posted on 12/30/2021 10:01:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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