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COVID-19 case counts are incorrect: The problem is having falsely high COVID-19 case counts due to false positives can affect people’s perception of the dangers of infection and policy decisions
American Thinker ^ | 02/25/2021 | Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

Posted on 02/25/2021 7:03:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: IrishBrigade

“‘Crash the economy to steal an election.’

that’s all well and good, but what about the rest of the world...? did they also crash their economies to get rid of Trump...?”

No, Liberal leaders worldwide crashed their economies to usher in the Great Reset, which is their global 16 year plan to move the world to Communism at lightning speed.


21 posted on 02/25/2021 9:07:06 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Nope again. It happened to a friend of mine at our local hospital. Five times she went for the same test and was counted five times with COVID when she had it only the one time. Fake stats for $$$$$


22 posted on 02/25/2021 9:19:39 AM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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COVID-19 case counts are incorrect: The problem is having falsely high COVID-19 case counts due to false positives can affect people’s perception of the dangers of infection and policy decisions

We have been lied to for a year now. Anything coming from the government, CDC, NIH and media is to be suspected. They have lied for so long they are beginning to believe their crap themselves.


23 posted on 02/25/2021 9:33:08 AM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

Also as regards counts, as of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement pdf iconexternal iconissued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists on April 5, 2020.

And which PDF states (added bold emphasis by me),

A probable case or death is defined by one of the following:

Not all jurisdictions report confirmed and probable cases and deaths to CDC. When not available to CDC, it is noted as N/A.

What Clinical Criteria and epidemiologic evidence means, respectively, is explained in the probable case or deathlink:

CSTE realizes that field investigations will involve evaluations of persons with no symptoms and these individuals will need to be counted as cases.

Clinical Criteria

At least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills, rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)

OR

At least one of the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing

OR

Severe respiratory illness with at least one of the following:

AND

No alternative more likely diagnosis

Epidemiologic Linkage

One or more of the following exposures in the 14 days before onset of symptoms:

**Close contact is defined as being within 6 feet for at least a period of 10 minutes to 30 minutes or more depending upon the exposure. In healthcare settings, this may be defined as exposures of greater than a few minutes or more. Data are insufficient to precisely define the duration of exposure that constitutes prolonged exposure and thus a close contact.

Which among other scenarios, means that a person that may be listed as a COVID-19 case if the person simply has a cough (for that alone qualifies as Clinical Criteria if there is no other more likely diagnosis) and has simply traveled to an area with sustained, ongoing community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, for that alone qualifies as Epidemiologic Linkage, and only one of each meets the qualification listing a death as COVID-19. <

And with money being involved, then liberal attribution of COVID-19 cases and deaths should be presumed in this fallen world, the reaction to it is unprecedented in America.

For as even USA Today affirmed,

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/]

24 posted on 02/25/2021 5:40:54 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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Keep them scared so you can control tehm.


25 posted on 02/27/2021 11:51:59 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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