Posted on 08/27/2020 10:31:38 AM PDT by Vendome
Over the last few months, it has become clear that the symptoms of COVID-19 are numerous and include not only fever, cough and shortness of breath but also body aches, significant fatigue, diarrhea, nausea and loss of taste or smell. Because there are so many potential symptoms and combinations of symptoms ― and so much confusion about the disease in general ― more and more people are afraid that they might have a potentially devastating illness, and so they are seeking reassurance through medical experts and testing at earlier and earlier stages of their illness.
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Flu Symptoms Influenza (flu) can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Flu is different from a cold. Flu usually comes on suddenly. People who have flu often feel some or all of these symptoms:
fever* or feeling feverish/chills cough sore throat runny or stuffy nose muscle or body aches headaches fatigue (tiredness) some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults. *It’s important to note that not everyone with flu will have a fever.
Please everyone who is into this: Wake the hell up and stop this insanity
Nearly every symptom attributed to COVID-19 also can be a symptom of many other more common illnesses. The loss of taste and smell is probably the least common to other bugs.
The thing is - if you have symptoms and test negative for COVID - you probably don’t have COVID. It really is that simple. Covid’s incubation period can be fairly short or fairly long - but if there is enough virus in you to trigger symptoms, you will test positive unless the test is improperly handled/processed.
Now - because of the overlapping symptoms, one could theoretically have one of the myriads of other bugs that cause similar symptoms and HAVE BEEN exposed to COVID - but the COVID itself has not manifested yet from incubation... But again - this is not a very likely scenario for most.
We’re outside flu season. This time of year, Influenza cases drop to single digits nationally.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
This year’s flu season, we were down under 1,000 cases by the end of March. Two weeks later we were down under 100 cases across the country. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/whoAllregt_cl33.html
I can relate. However I am getting constant nose bleeds.
Yahoo news and Huffington post is full of leftist lies. Why post their garbage here?
COVID turned me into a newt, but then I got better.
Hypochondriacs hardest hit!
My sister and sister in law, who have virtually no contact with each so totally separately suffered from flu like symptoms. Both tested negative for covid and regular flu. I’m still trying to figure that out.
Nothing to figure out.
You definitely had CCP-19
Because I wanted to illustrate the bullshit being imposed on people.
They list the same exact symptoms as flu but, couch it “Over the last few months, it has become clear that the symptoms of COVID-19 are numerous and include ...”
The same exact symptoms as the flu...
Kewel
Can I have your autograph?
So, she never tested positive for it, but she’s sure she had it. When Democrats start accepting anecdotal study results for HCQ+Zinc+Zpak treatment, I will start believing you can have Covid without ever testing positive (after 5 tests!)
Doesnt say if she treated herself in any way such as upping VitD3, Vit C, NAC, quercetin and zinc.
This is the Zelenko protocol
https://twitter.com/zev_dr/status/1297541977123237888/photo/1
https://twitter.com/zev_dr/status/1297541977123237888/photo/2
Depends on who’s doing the testing, what the definitions are and the accuracy.
the article states this nurse was tested 5 times and came back negative. Succesfully tested positive on the sixth try.
Last week 77 NFL players all tested positive in the morning and practices were cancelled.
Amazingly, that very same evening they tested negative.
Governor Dewine tested positive a week ago and later that day tested negative
Amazing!!!
The traditional US test for COVID-19 (the nasal swab PCR test) has a high false negative score in the first few days of infection. There isn’t enough viral material yet in most cases to get a good result. It’s also subject to extended positive tests due to lingering noninfectious viral proteins remaining in a recovered patient’s system for sometimes weeks after the infection has cleared.
Hopefully the Yale saliva test that was recently approved provides a clearer picture and is less subject to collection errors and contamination issues.
Which is the point.
Most of the early were assumed because we didn’t have testing kits for most and CDC proscribed symptoms and directed healthcare organizations to describe the case as Covid with no actual test
The widespread diagnostic test for the virus in a patient, the PCR, is riddled with irreparable flaws. It spits out false-positives, because the test reacts to the presence of irrelevant germs that have nothing to do with a purported COVID.
Most importantly the test has never been vetted, in the real world, for its claimed ability to detect whether a patient is ill or is going to become ill.
According to the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel https://bit.ly/2L8NV9I
“Positive results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.
Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions.”
Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. Then again, maybe the COVID virus is not be in the patient’s body either.
From the World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” https://bit.ly/3cidWiS
“Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.”
Translation: Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with COVID—including plain old coronas that cause nothing more than a cold.
As far as the “assays that detect the 2019-nCOV that are currently under development. Yeah, just a few.
For a test that is supposed to be so definitive and accurate, there sure are a great many firms in development of testing for the diagnosis of COVID-19
Actually, 633 of them the diagnostic pipeline at the time I posted this in June as a matter of fact. However, there are now 790 companies working on this still https://bit.ly/3clw4Za
If the testing on this is so definitive, why are 790 companies still developing testing for it?
Possibly because they still have not effectively isolated the virus and still don’t know what exactly it is that they are looking for.
Or could it be that it is extremely difficult to detect this SARS-CoV-2 virus because it is easily defeated by the immune system? (Note: SARS-CoV-2 virus. Hmmm…thought this was something so novel we have not seen it before? When then is it so similar to the SARS virus that it is called SARS-CoV-2 then? That would indicate that it is similar in nature to a virus we are well aware of so similar to a known virus that it is labeled as -2.
Gee, maybe not so novel after all huh? No more novel than any other mutated SARS virus which is quite common with RNA viruses like this SARS-CoV-2 virus btw. All RNA viruses mutate regularly which is why these virus vaccines are so ineffective, their target changes so quickly.
Or possibly that it is so immensely difficult to test an individual for a specific virus when the samples are always contaminated with all kinds of germs including bacteria, other viral strains and other DNA/RNA bearing tissues?
But what do the manufacturers say about the COVID diagnostic test? How about this gem from Creative Diagnostics, a popular test manufacturer:
This product is intended for the detection of 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The detection result of this product is only for clinical reference, and it should not be used as the only evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. https://bit.ly/2KnJ4kP
In other words: Don’t use the test result alone to diagnose infection or disease.
Pretty confident about their testing huh?
Perhaps that is why the CDC includes “probable cases” in their statistical counts:
What is a COVID-19 probable case?
A probable case or death is defined by
Meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19; or
Meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence; or Meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19. https://bit.ly/3bdziMV
Translation: You don’t even have to have “confirmatory laboratory testing performed” in order for the case to be considered a COVID-19 case.
I guess that could be helpful to the hospitals who have had their cash cows of elective surgery eliminated (80% of many hospitals incomes) and are losing money now.
They could just drop a medicare patient into the “probable COVID-19 category” and go from a standard Medicare admit of $4,600 to a COVID admit billable for $13,000 now. About a 3X billable increase.
And heck, if they can get them on a ventilator with a COVID diagnosis, the Medicare admit jumps to $39,000, over an 8-fold increase!
I guess its a conspiracy theory to imagine that hospitals losing money due to the contraction of their scheduled surgery income would begin to amazingly turn up more COVID cases and put some of these people with respiratory issues on ventilators as well.
Yeah…might not have anything to do with increasing revenues I guess since we know that ALL hospitals and doctors operate with full integrity and complete concern for ALL patients.
When I see Yahoo of huffpost on a headline I don’t even bother reading the article. They insult our intelligence every time. They exist only to carry dems water and spew their talking points.
I understand but, wanted to demonstrate their edicts blow right through my craptastic meter
The one thing the experts know about this virus is they know absolutely nothing (with any amount of certainty).
Every doctor will always qualify the answer to any question about CV19 with... “We don’t know for sure”
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