Posted on 04/18/2020 2:18:18 AM PDT by cll
The [Puerto Rico] Secretary of Health, Lorenzo González, acknowledged today to the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) that the agency he heads has been mixing the results of molecular tests, which are confirmatory that the person has the virus, with the results of the rapid tests or serological, whose result according to the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA in English) is inconclusive. The implication of this is that there has been a double count, perhaps even triple, of the results in government reports on COVID-19. For example, a person who had a rapid test that was positive and then had a molecular test confirming that positive is counted in the numbers reported by the Government as two separate cases, when in reality it is only one.
The CPI asked if the current number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico has a double or even triple count.
"Yes, of course it does," said the Secretary. He explained that there are patients who test positive and when they recover, they undergo another test to see if it is already negative. "That patient has had two, potentially three tests," he said, confirming that the results of those two or up to three tests would individually enter the figures, despite being from the same patient.
Earlier, they had also admitted that they were counting many deaths as COVID-19 without a positive result.
This IS all BS. Puerto Rico has been on lock down longer than anywhere else in the U.S.!
They should only be confirming rapid pos tests. So don’t count the hogs. What scary scientist is in charge of their lab? Obviously not a math major, or minor.
‘Rats are STEM challenged?
Who knew?
Ping
Perfect
Nicely played
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