Posted on 04/14/2020 2:03:06 PM PDT by glasseye
Over 3,200 people in Santa Clara County were tested for COVID-19 antibodies on Friday and Saturday in an effort to determine the proportion of the population that either has or has recovered from coronavirus. The study, led by researchers at Stanford Medicine, is the first of its kind in the nation.
The results, expected to be released within a week, could be used to guide future public health policy in the county, according to associate professor of medicine and study co-lead Eran Bendavid.
Article claims results 'in minutes' and yet 10 days later they still have not released their findings.
There are only 3 possibilities that I can see: 1: Their test sucks and the data is garbage, okay shit happens, let us know anyway. 2: Results indicate few people with antibodies. 3: Results indicate many people with antibodies.
The entire country wants this information, yet, nothing.
So which is it Stanford...incompetence or agenda?
Benefit of the doubt speaks to 'agenda', which begs the question, WHAT IS STANFORDS AGENDA?
I wonder... are the current tests general for corona-viruses, or very specific to the COVID-19 SARS-COV2 variety?
Best guess:
The testing shows a very high number of people who have already recovered from it, which makes the denominator skyrocket and reveals all of those doom and gloom models as crap.
And I guess some people just don’t want that word to get out.
I am going with their test sucked. Seeing a lot of reports of problems with different antibody tests.
A handful of manufacturers have produced antibody testing. Gen 1 antibody tests are tough because there are varied immune responses, interfereri g substances and well finding the specific antibody.
Without prper validation and vetting you get garbage in and garbage out.
Remember the hiv antibody testing? I do. It took quite some time to develop for accurate results.
So.. do you want results mow, or accurate results.
I can see it taking a couple weeks to get all the data loaded, analyzed and write a report that has to be approved for release by two or three layers of management. I think it is premature to criticize them. Give them a another week or two.
I think there are democrats voting in this election.
Also, there probably aren’t many students on campus. The grunts who do all the basic data entry and analysis have probably all gone home.
Don’t know but the Stanford test was on TV yesterday and they have contracts to go do random sample testing in other places. I believe the test has a tendency to under count the people with antibodies. So they have a fudge factor to account for this. But they are looking at the data.
Both, but you do the best you can do at the moment.
But, if you are aware that there are potential issues with your test tools, you make that known, so that test results are taken with a grain of salt.
Bill gates plays a real good Dr. evil as the front for the vaccine industry
I think he’s done as much damage as I could hope to this awful and evil industry
that purports to make you pay to inject poison into yourself
And then has the nerve to call themselves heroes
Look don’t get me wrong - Jonas Salk is a world hero
You just have to look carefully at different ways to destroy viruses and bacteria and mold and fungi - that don’t harm the host!!
Cheers !
“Article claims results ‘in minutes’ and yet 10 days later they still have not released their findings. “
A search for ‘in minutes’ gives ZERO hits. Besides there is no way you are going to test 3200 and c8mpile results and recommendations ‘in minutes’.
“So which is it Stanford...incompetence or agenda? “
Or maybe your incompetence or agenda?
They should test Epstein
I agree, Stanford is a cesspool of progressive programming.
So the test sucked, withholding results will not change that.
I think the delay is to ‘’spin’ the results or wait until whatever the results are to become irrelevant.
Could be that, too...but whatever the results probably highly inaccurate
there should be a lot of people with the antibody given this has likely circulating for awhile..unless the antibody only stays for a short time - which there is some speculation as to that idea
Sorry to inform.. a wrong test can cost someone or worse many lives. It was a rhetorical question because no one I had ever met, until today, wanted the wrong answer.. as long as it was the wrong answer now.
The tests were carried out last Friday and Saturday.
Dr. Bendavid did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s inquiries on Friday morning about when the results would be known.
Premier Biotech, the lab which makes the tests, says on its website that the results are available within 10 minutes of the sample being taken and that the results remain valid for 20 minutes.
Missed that bit of info was omitted from the article I posted, been looking around, found info that in several other articles.
Well. Maybe you didn’t understand my perspective.
I’m all for full disclosure of accuracy and probabilities. False postives, false negatives, WHAT IT IS you are actually testing for and if it is a proxy for what you are looking for, etc.
If there’s a reasonable basis for using a proxy, I’m OK with that, but I’d like to know the basis.
Am I still so wrong?
Option 4: It is a low-budget operation primarily run by students.
Or maybe they are just going to combine the results with this new 10K person study later on:
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