The Politicization of COVID-19 Science Is Dangerous and Inexcusable

PJ Media ^ | 08/18/2020 | Stacey Lennox

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When science is being characterized as “right-wing” because it doesn’t fit the Democrats’ and the media’s preferred COVID-19 narrative, we are living in a dangerous world. The mental and physical health of millions of Americans is on the line, and the media wants to play politics with what kind of information you can read.

Take the case of Dr. James Todaro. He was a member of America’s Frontline Doctors, the group that went to Washington, D.C., to try and cut through the panic porn being pushed by the media. After sharing their experience with early outpatient treatment with HCQ, zinc, and azithromycin, they were censored, smeared, and, in at least one case, fired.

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More recently, Dr. Todaro shared information about T-cell immunity from COVID-19 in several studies published in reputable journals. In a sane world, this information would be excellent news amid a pandemic. The studies are also based on science, using proven techniques.

These studies showed that subjects who had no exposure to COVID-19 had long-term immunity that fought off the virus. Their memory T cells reacted to COVID-19 based on characteristics the virus has in common with other coronaviruses.

These T cells, developed in response to coronaviruses that cause the common cold, may be fighting off COVID-19 in healthy people. This T-cell reactivity may explain the phenomenon known as “asymptomatic cases.” It may also make testing asymptomatic individuals an exercise in futility.

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The CDC states on its website that retesting a recovered patient is of little to no value for 90 days after they no longer have symptoms. The limited usefulness of a retest is because virus RNA can remain in the nasal passages and is amplified by the current test. The same thing could happen to a person with reactive T cells who never shows symptoms. The particles, or viral remains, cannot infect someone else.

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The fact that science itself has been politicized could quite seriously be death knell for the human race.

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