Posted on 04/19/2020 5:15:28 AM PDT by blam
Researchers and clinicians who have ‘experimented’ with random mass testing for COVID-19 have made some pretty amazing – and amazingly depressing – discoveries. Yesterday, we shared a report about one sweeping antibody testing regime set up by researchers in Santa Clara County in California.
The study found that the estimated level of novel coronavirus penetration in the county was “50-80% higher” than what had been recorded.
If that isn’t enough to terrify every day trader who ratcheted up their exposure heading into the weekend, a news story about another surprising discovery – this time on the East Coast – has just come to our attention.
After a cluster of cases involving residents of a South Boston homeless shelter, Massachusetts public health officials tested every resident of the Pine Street shelter in Boston’s South End.
The results have garnered the attention of the CDC, which is “actively investigating the situation,” according to Boston 25 News.
The CDC is now “actively looking into” into universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter.
The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston’s South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.
Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.
“It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking,” said Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which provides medical care at the city’s shelters.
O’Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston’s homeless shelters.
The big takeaway, if you couldn’t tell, is that a pattern is developing here:
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(Excerpt) Read more at nationandstate.com ...
Hope they’re using a different type of machine to check the test results. Machines do screw up.
And we’re locking down Americans with homes.
I hate to say this but you’ve got to be pretty tough to live in the streets. Either that or the herd immunity has taken its toll.
A lot of FReepers don’t seem to understand the very complex logistics of cranking out tens of millions of tests.
Validating them all to be reasonably accurate adds a whole nother layer of complexity.
The country is probably a good ways towards herd immunity already.
All diagnostics should be measured with clinical presentation. The fda changed the reporting of positives for this test only to a single target. There is a reason single target testing is not industry standard.
False pos and negs in even decades old tests still exist. In this case this could be gen 1testing fail. Look up false positives in molecular diagnostics.
testing for COVID-19 is stupid. That is
the general term for the illnesses.
the virus is SARS_CoV-2.
can the test distinguish THAT from coronoviruses
which are ~!30% of the common cold in Boston?
wtf are they doing? getting ready to test
more Viagra?
It’s only shocking to those that think if you are in contact with COVID that you will be sick and probably die when that isn’t how it works.
BUMP
Yup.
I'm beginning to wonder if COVID-19 isn't the cause of our unusually 'severe' flu season this year.
We lost everything in the war against the sniffles....
Flu bro.
I believe my wife and I both had it a month ago. No one will test you unless your symptoms are exactly as described by whoever is deciding this thing. I’d like to test for the antibody but unless a doctor sends you forget about it.
BTW. It was like a cold for 3 days for me and a week for the wife. No fever.
Did it make you mean, son.
My concern is how broad is the test? Is it picking up "something" causing all these positives or are machines defective, not calibrated properly.
Suggest that the same group be tested 6 hours later with a different type machine and "educated" testers.
Where the rest of America will be spending their summer.
Day traders by definition (at least this use to be the case) close out their positions by the end of the day, hence the name "day trader."
Is that place for sale? From the looks I doubt I could afford it but it does look nice. Now that I’m retired I can’t afford a boat anymore and after having had 6 of them I have been pretty well “vaccinated” against boats. But a cheap hunting cabin near some good deer hunting I might be able to swing. I obviously already have a good deer rifle.
To me, it's anything BUT depressing. It means two things - The death rate from the disease is far less than the 1% to 5% numbers that are being reported, and that we're much closer to "herd immunity" that will kill the disease off completely.
All epidemics die away when each person who contracts the disease inflicts, on average, less than one additional person. When a large percentage of "the herd" had already contracted the disease, and is thus immune, there aren't enough people left to get the disease, so it dies away. "Herd Immunity" may already explain the current low disease rates in California and Washington state.
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