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CDC: Antibody test results are often wrong and should not be relied on
www.businessinsider.com ^ | 5/27/2020 | Shira Feder

Posted on 05/27/2020 11:54:28 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The agency also said that antibody tests shouldn't be used to make important decisions about re-opening.

The Food and Drug Administration has also said that antibody tests are not reliable.

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The CDC has released new guidance on antibody tests, warning that they can be wrong half the time and shouldn't be used to inform important policy decisions.

The antibody test, also known as a serologic test, is a blood test that checks the body to see if it has antibodies that can fight COVID-19, and can help people figure out if they had COVID-19 and recovered.

The immune system creates antibodies to fight disease, and often these antibodies remain in the body after recovery, and can be donated to people currently fighting coronavirus.

But this medical test is often inaccurate. Sometimes the test can result in a false positive, wrongly suggesting a patient does have coronavirus-fighting antibodies, or a false negative.

"Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about grouping persons residing in or being admitted to congregate settings, such as schools, dormitories, or correctional facilities," it says on the CDC website. "Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about returning persons to the workplace."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bs; coronabeer; coronavirus; scam
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why are we listening to these creatures

1 posted on 05/27/2020 11:54:28 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Wrong half the time?

IOW the test has a little elf inside it who flips a coin and makes a call.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 11:56:31 AM PDT by OKSooner (Don't buy from China. Don't buy from Microsoft. Don't do Facebook. Tweet only enough to get banned.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

WTF??????????


3 posted on 05/27/2020 11:57:04 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: OKSooner

Wrong 5%


4 posted on 05/27/2020 11:57:22 AM PDT by HollyB (Cv timeline)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yet the one thing we CAN RELY ON

Is the negative “news” from “sources” like “BusinessInsider”

Good grief

Our own countrymen dropping economic bombs in their lust for power

The Greatest Generation and before, are spinning in their graves


5 posted on 05/27/2020 11:58:40 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Open up America! Enough! COMMUNISM was and IS the problem Boycott China)
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To: RomanSoldier19

So in other words, there’s no hope, it’s all over, we’re all gonna die...well, the last is true, but certainly not of COVID.

So why bother reopening the country, getting our civil rights back, etc? Everybody around you is a walking lethal threat no matter what. Run away, run away; mask, mask, mask...


6 posted on 05/27/2020 12:01:05 PM PDT by livius
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To: RomanSoldier19

Pay no attention to the Testing, we will tell you how scared you should be.


7 posted on 05/27/2020 12:01:06 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: RomanSoldier19

Silly experts. Do you actually think I’m listening to you?


8 posted on 05/27/2020 12:01:58 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: livius

think the point is that we are on our own
and we cannot rely on anyone touting science or similar non sense


9 posted on 05/27/2020 12:02:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Huh. Just like the CDC.


10 posted on 05/27/2020 12:02:52 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

[[it says on the CDC website. “Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about returning persons to the workplace.”]]

And there’s the reason for the ‘results of the tests being inaccurate’ supposedly- - The power control freaks in government don’t want folks being deemed safe to return to work-

How do they know the tests are inaccurate if they have to use supposedly inaccurate tests again just to find out the previous test was inaccurate?


11 posted on 05/27/2020 12:03:22 PM PDT by Bob434
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These people are dangerous. I originally said ‘idiots’. But, they know what they are doing. . History has shown the usefulness of Antigen tests and decisions have been made based on the results.

No doubt whatsoever that a narrative is hijacking another decision making tool.


12 posted on 05/27/2020 12:03:59 PM PDT by HollyB (Cv timeline)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Now when the CDC finally gets something RIGHT, THAT will be news worth posting!


13 posted on 05/27/2020 12:04:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Can’t have that denominator going up. Might prove that these lockdowns were useless and uncalled for.


14 posted on 05/27/2020 12:05:34 PM PDT by walkingdead (By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
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To: Bob434

Pretty sure anyone who had corona-virus aka flu will be testing for this stupid thing

bottom line

we are on our own as usual


15 posted on 05/27/2020 12:05:48 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: Bob434

Yet, people use antigen tests for chicken pox, measles, etc to make decisions. Or are they saying it’s just this virus. The reactive information (IGM) is the same whether it is for this virus or another. They want people at home. Plain and simple.


16 posted on 05/27/2020 12:07:07 PM PDT by HollyB (Cv timeline)
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To: RomanSoldier19
The headline would be more accurate if it read:

The CDC is often wrong!

17 posted on 05/27/2020 12:08:24 PM PDT by ImpBill ("America, Where are you now?")
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To: RomanSoldier19

Utter deep state lying Bull crap. Antibodies to a known antigen virus are the ONLY test that in the real long run... matters.

These are the very tests these same CDC a@@holes use to verify that there usually WRONG variant annual strain of Influenza vaccine is..... EFFECTIVE! Ha! this year’s?....60% ineffective as PROVEN by their own antibody testing.

Give it a rest..... Center of PEOPLE Control... They “control” not ONE disease. People control disease by their actions-— and God’s grace of our immune system’s preservation of our life. Even against Chi-com bioengineered non-natural (with significant added foreign RNA that is not possible, clinically to exist in nature, but jumped species...un-naturally) SARSCov2-CCP Wuhan Virus.


18 posted on 05/27/2020 12:09:43 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The market took a big swift dump right after this was announced this morning..or at least when it started making the rounds on twitter. dont know when it really came out


19 posted on 05/27/2020 12:10:06 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Weaponized branches of the U.S. Gov;t, that have been politicized and exist to debunk a duly elected President...should be ignored. The CDC...needs to keep with what they do best, monitor deviate sexual behaviour and help confused people who aren;t sure what their gender is.


20 posted on 05/27/2020 12:11:33 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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