Posted on 04/22/2020 4:05:05 PM PDT by WWII_Historian
The common (and usually false) opinion is that modern doctors still take the ancient Hippocratic Oath. In part, it states: “First, do no harm.” Unfortunately, not all medical schools administer this non-binding oath. Note, “do no harm” was never a part of the original Hippocratic Oath oddly. However, it can be found in another epic work attributed to Hippocrates, titled “Of the Epidemics.”
Well, we are certainly facing an epidemic in front of us. This makes the words of the wise ancient philosopher relevant. How can the novel coronavirus epidemic in the United States be viewed from the “do no harm” point of view? There are degrees of the harm often, no matter what.
Sea of Errors
Without going into technical details, a significant part of the currently known coronavirus testing is, most likely, bogus. There are a lot of false positives, estimates are as high as 80%. This seems a bit high, but who knows what test kits were used. Basically, this means that testing positive with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus means almost nothing (that’s why doctors conduct multiple tests.) There are a lot of false positives and no reliable data.
There is a significant percentage of people with coronavirus antibodies (meaning they already had the disease), but it is not yet known if they have developed immunity to COVID-19. Numbers range from 10% to 30% of the population. This is the most troubling number because it means that COVID-19 has been active in our society for an awfully long time. Any forecasting models that do not take into account the number of people with antibodies are not just ridiculously wrong – they are simply garbage.
There is massive forced attribution of various illnesses and causes of death exclusively to COVID-19, at the expense of other common causes.
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Yes, yes, and yes.
“In other words, during the current epidemic, we are wandering in a fog of incomplete, misleading, and unreliable data.
Yes, yes, and yes.”
Couple that with reporting by a media that is media precisely because fifth grade science is totally beyond them and we get the nightly news.
Sad thing is that they actually believe that they do know more than you do.
The fda declared a sigle target positive to be Covid pos. There are reasons molecular tests use two target testing, a darned good reason. False negs from poor np collection, or perhaps collected after the virus has migrated to lower resp tract, where a sputumn would be pos.
But hey, right or wrong answer people are getting tested.
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