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Is the COVID Surge More Fake News?
American Thinker ^ | 2 Jul, 2020 | Brian C.Joondeph, MD

Posted on 07/02/2020 5:36:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“The coronavirus surge is real, and it’s everywhere” says Axios and most of the DNC media.

Time to panic. They pile on, “The coronavirus pandemic is getting dramatically worse in almost every corner of the U.S.”

We are told new cases are rising by double-digit percentages, including: “The number of people hospitalized with coronavirus.” Hospitalized with or from coronavirus? Is this really a surge or simply fear-mongering fake news?

Texas features prominently in the surge scare. Coincidently Texas is a red state that if flipped to blue would prevent a Republican from ever winning the White House for the foreseeable future. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the Chinese coronavirus surge.

A Texas hospital CEO lets the fake news cat out of the bag.

Health officials in Texas are logging every single COVID-19-positive hospital patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization, even if the patients themselves are admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus.

Most hospitals require a COVID test before elective surgery. This means that patients coming to the hospital for a non-COVID reason are tested for COVID, and if positive are being counted as a “COVID hospitalization.” If a patient goes to the hospital for a new hip or cataract surgery, and happens to test positive for COVID, they are counted as a COVID hospitalization.

Just like inflated death counts, there is a big difference between dying or being hospitalized due to coronavirus or with coronavirus.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: corona; coronavirus; inflated; insurrection; pandemic
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1 posted on 07/02/2020 5:36:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Remember how awful it was in NY? Worst in the nation by far.

Yesterday 14 people died of COVID-19 in NY state.


2 posted on 07/02/2020 5:39:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: MtnClimber

I heard from a nurse that many employees returning to work require a negative COVID19 test. If anyone tests positive they must get several negative tests over a company directed time period. Each positive test gets counted even if it is the same person testing positive while trying to get three negative tests in a row.


3 posted on 07/02/2020 5:40:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes, but Cuomo handled it so well. A hero I hear.


4 posted on 07/02/2020 5:41:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Two days ago Dr. Joseph Mercola, who has been kicked out of all social media for writing the truth, published an article at his site on Wuhan virus. These are the main points:

Story at-a-glance

SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies are only found in the most severe cases — about 1 in 5. That suggests COVID-19 may in fact be five times more prevalent than suspected. It also means it may be five times less deadly than predicted.

Even though people who had been exposed to infected individuals had SARS-CoV-2-specific immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies in their mucosa, there were no virus-specific antibodies in their blood.

The strength of antiviral immune responses, including T cell activation and proliferation, slows with age. This can help explain why older people are vastly more susceptible to severe COVID-19 illness and death.

Your humoral immune system can kick in if there’s cross-reactivity with another very similar pathogen. In the case of COVID-19, there’s evidence to suggest exposure to other coronaviruses that cause the common cold can confer immunity against SARS-CoV-2.

Between 40% and 60% of people who have not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 still have resistance to the virus on the T-cell level.

These findings are from research conducted in Switzerland.


5 posted on 07/02/2020 5:47:07 AM PDT by Nordic Breed
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To: MtnClimber

Yes


6 posted on 07/02/2020 5:48:18 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: MtnClimber

Just more massaging of the numbers to create the narrative


7 posted on 07/02/2020 5:50:39 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll be brief. Yes.


8 posted on 07/02/2020 5:51:43 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: MtnClimber

There you go. Massaging the numbers to fit the narrative. The leftists are experts at this with our federal government aiding them


9 posted on 07/02/2020 5:52:12 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: MtnClimber

Herd immunity is working.


10 posted on 07/02/2020 5:53:42 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. A lot more positive tests, nationwide, the number of hospitalizations and deaths are very low, falling.


11 posted on 07/02/2020 5:56:04 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: MtnClimber

I actually watched ABC Morning News today just to see what they were saying, and boy, the world is in dire shape with a truely delusional leader in charge. People take that stuff seriously.

I don’t.


12 posted on 07/02/2020 5:58:07 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: MtnClimber

Probably.


13 posted on 07/02/2020 6:00:24 AM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. Fake News.

Figures never lie, but Liars Figure.


14 posted on 07/02/2020 6:00:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: MtnClimber

Without exaggeration, he should be held accountable for the nursing home deaths. Those were calculated decisions and preventable. . Just as calculated and preventable as Chauvin putting his knee on Floyd’s neck.


15 posted on 07/02/2020 6:06:14 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: MtnClimber

More tests = More cases. Duh.


16 posted on 07/02/2020 6:06:42 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Most hospitals require a COVID test before elective surgery. This means that patients coming to the hospital for a non-COVID reason are tested for COVID, and if positive are being counted as a “COVID hospitalization.” If a patient goes to the hospital for a new hip or cataract surgery, and happens to test positive for COVID, they are counted as a COVID hospitalization.

Has anyone stopped to question why this is? The answer is simple: FedGov is paying big bucks to hospitals for every China Virus infection.

This means hospitals have a financial incentive to count as many China Virus infections as possible as reason for hospitalization than anything else.

This is a FRAUD being perpetrated on a mass scale against the American Taxpayer.

17 posted on 07/02/2020 6:11:32 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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It gets worse. Texas can’t even count their test positive cases correctly. “State health officials acknowledged they have been releasing inaccurate figures because they were combining the number of positive COVID-19 antigen tests with the number of positive antibody tests.” Antibody tests are now readily available, and individuals exposed or symptomatic in March or April can be tested today. Many will have COVID antibodies, indicating past, but not currently active infection. Yet they are part of the so-called surge.>/i>

The antigen tests show old infections. The data is adding data for these old infections as if they happened right after states reopened.

18 posted on 07/02/2020 6:12:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Oh let's just cut to the chase.

For reporting purposes let's count me as both a covid-19 case and a covid-19 fatality. Sure, I'm not sick, I feel fine. Haven't been tested, don't actually know if I had it or have it now. Obviously I'm typing so I'm not actually dead - yet.

But let's not get caught up in the minutiae when they need to pump up those numbers! Face it, the DNC knows it has a problem who's initials are Joe Biden. Their convention is going to be a circus of rigged outcome. The only way they win in November is through widespread voter fraud. Massive, unprecedented voter fraud. The DNC needs widespread vote by mail to help make this happen.

Therefore they need the populace fearful and clamoring for vote-by-mail. Gosh, what two things are going on now that might support that? How about trying to instill fear of some flu strain? How about the threat of violence at polling places? The covid farce and BLM insurgency are mere tools - useful on several fronts. But the real thing they are doing now is setting up voter fraud later. The fascists want control. Never mind the smoke and mirrors, at the end of the day it is always about power and control. Always.

19 posted on 07/02/2020 6:13:26 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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Right? I walked into my local gas station/market the other day. The tv was on CNN and there was a panel of people upset about Covid. I was like “Are they still talk about this?” I just do what I always did/do. Wash my hands and don’t touch my face. Masks are required in public in my county/state. I’m not bothered by it tho. It’s just a few moments to 1/2 hour when in a store.

But, geez the stress I had after reading that British report when it came out almost killed me. I do not like being jerked around like that. Nor does anybody else. Can’t believe people expect anyone to trust why they say in that subject agin.


20 posted on 07/02/2020 6:14:37 AM PDT by HollyB
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