Posted on 01/27/2021 6:19:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a true shocker, as soon as Joe Biden took office and resumed the hundreds of millions in annual taxpayer kickbacks to the World Health Organization, the latter organization decided, after a year of false reporting, that maybe they should report positive COVID tests accurately.
Essentially, they admitted that a huge number of positive results of people with no symptoms were false and the people with them weren’t contagious.
Most of us normal people, who aren’t scientists or doctors, have the common sense to understand that people who are coughing and sneezing are contagious whether or not they wear a mask. We also understand that the rest of us who have no symptoms probably aren’t spreading the disease whether or not we wear a mask.
Why would we ever test hundreds of millions of people with no symptoms for a virus when we never have before?
W.H.O. Modifies Virus Testing Criteria on Biden Inauguration Day; May Result in Fewer Positives
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on the day President Joe Biden took office, released new coronavirus testing guidelines for laboratories worldwide that may result in fewer infections reported by health officials.
On Inauguration Day, the W.H.O. issued the new directives for the commonly used PCR testing in the form of a “medical product alert,” indicating that a patient who comes out positive may need to take a second test and present symptoms to be considered infected.
Here are some of the things that supposed “experts” have told us the last year which most of the media have parroted to the public to scare them into submission:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In January 2020, the WHO spread the propaganda from China that COVID-19 would not spread human-to-human. WHO, along with the NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others, simply trusted China. Why would the U.S. or anyone contribute hundreds of millions to WHO when essentially they are a tool for the communists in China?
Trump clearly didn’t trust China and imposed a much-criticized travel ban. Biden and others called the ban xenophobic, racist, and an overreaction. Trump was right, of course, yet we are told that Trump misled the public, didn’t take the virus seriously and caused all deaths.
In January, February and early March, Fauci and others, including supposed journalists, said COVID would not be much of a problem but as the death toll mounted, it was all Trump's fault that everyone died.
While CDC was fiddling, Trump was mobilizing the private and public sector to produce medical supplies and ventilators which had been depleted and unreplenished by President Obama and then-Vice President Biden. But somehow, Trump was the one who didn’t take the virus seriously and caused all the deaths.
In late February, Pelosi went to Chinatown to celebrate Chinese new year and told everyone it was safe, yet she now says that Trump didn’t take the virus seriously.
The scientists at CDC screwed up the early testing on COVID which delayed the response, but it is all Trump’s fault. Remember this?
CDC Coronavirus Testing Decision Likely To Haunt Nation For Months To Come
They even blamed him for stuff that DIDN’T happen, like hundreds of thousands of deaths.
REPORT: CDC Apparently Changed COVID Criteria That Inflated Fatalities 10-Fold (2/2)
Yet, somehow, hardly anyone in America is even aware that the CDC managed to get their initial $8 billion budget for 2020 increased by a factor of six to a whopping $46 billion by relentlessly honking the COVID-19 panic-horn
You see, in March of 2020, the CDC announced some changes to the way they wanted doctors to start filling out death certificates. And a few weeks later, the CDC issued some new diagnostic guidelines.
As an outfit called Children’s Health Defense (CHD) noted way back in July, these new criteria for diagnosing COVID-19 and listing it on death certificates turned out to so preposterously loose that they were bound to create a massive but wholly illusory increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths than would have been reported had this new disease which the CDC so successfully raised funds on not been given this exceedingly strange special treatment.
So, since the instructions in April went on to say doctors should diagnose a patient with COVID-19 on the basis of a mere cough, anyone who has a cough will wind up getting COVID-19 listed on his death certificate.
Colds, the flu, allergies, and all the myriad other things that were causing people to cough before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, apparently, suddenly ceased to exist.
Moreover, notice that the March guidelines don’t just mean that COVID-19 will get listed on a coughing decedent’s death certificate in the absence of any test confirming infection. If you have a cough and then die, your death certificate will list COVID-19 even if you did have a test but it came back negative.
Indeed, the CDC’s instructions guarantee that COVID-19 will wind up on your death certificate no matter how many negative tests you had!
But Trump doesn’t pay attention to the facts and science and is responsible for all deaths?
One thing that is being overlooked and will never be told by the MSM, is that the vaccines that are now being deployed were developed and manufactured by the private , capitalist sector. Despite all the political noise and posturing, the Federal government had little to do with it. Of course the Feds are seizing credit, commandeering the distribution and as usual screwing it up.
One might hope that people who claim to be Democrats, but aren’t total woketards will see what is happening and repent.
Trump made 3 mistakes on COVID. 1) Pence, 2) Fauci, 3) Birx. This is not to criticize Trump. Operation Warp speed was a huge victory and the author is 100% correct that whatever he did would be criticized. But Fauci and Birx actively undermined him, and Pence and Trump allowed it to happen daily. Also, a few prime time addresses to the nation and fewer shouting matches with the press would have done him a world of good. That said, they were planning to steal this from March, so not sure any of this would have mattered.
Great article.
Did Xi-Jin-biden tell us he would choose facts over truth or truth over facts? I can’t remember.
I wouldn’t call them mistakes as much as Trump’s hands were tied.
He can’t just fire people right and left, as in the business world.
Must be COVID day at AT. Yawn.
The press was Biden’s real running mate.
Fauci was the worst decision he ever made. That guy was a train wreck and it has become patently obvious he was on a mission to take down the President. He should be tried for treason.
REalize (& remember) that any revamp of infection reporting will be reported as an improvement accomplished by BBiden. It is not truth in diagnosis or improvement in medicine. It is the divine involvement of BB.
There will be no going back to correct old data. It will only be used going forward.
This could have been done in Oct — but, we know what that would have meant.
"Will" or even should wind up getting COVID-19 listed on his death certificate is an exaggeration, for while the CDC does allow for "presumed" deaths by Covid despite not being tested as positive, a mere cough (under "clinical criteria") is not the only criteria the CDC states, but in the most liberal probable criteria this must be accompanied by "epidemiologic linkage," which itself is very liberal (see below). Thus while the criteria does not allow for mere cough to suffice for classification of a Covid infection, yet this broad criteria does allow for many deaths to be wrong listed as Covid - and for which hospitals do receive more Fed. money.
The CDC page that the article links to says,
CSTE realizes that field investigations will involve evaluations of persons with no symptoms and these individuals will need to be counted as cases.
At least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills, rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)
OR
At least one of the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing
OR
Severe respiratory illness with at least one of the following:
AND
No alternative more likely diagnosis
Laboratory Criteria Laboratory evidence using a method approved or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or designated authority:...
One or more of the following exposures in the 14 days before onset of symptoms:
**Close contact is defined as being within 6 feet for at least a period of 10 minutes to 30 minutes or more depending upon the exposure. In healthcare settings, this may be defined as exposures of greater than a few minutes or more. Data are insufficient to precisely define the duration of exposure that constitutes prolonged exposure and thus a close contact.
Not applicable (N/A) until more virologic data are available.
Thus a person with a mere cough and who has had Close contact with a probable case of COVID-19 or has traveled to or lived in an area with sustained, ongoing community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 can be classed as a covid case.
The CDC also states, COVID-19 Alert No. 2 March 2 4, 2020 New ICD code introduced for COVID-19 deaths This email is to alert you that a newly-introduced ICD code has been implemented to accurately capture mortality data for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on death certificates...The new ICD code for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is U07...If the death certificate reports terms such as “probable COVID-19” or “likely COVID- 19,” these terms would be assigned the new ICD code. It Is not likely that NCHS will follow up on these cases. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf)
It also CDC states,
Death counts in this report include laboratory confirmed COVID-19 deaths and clinically confirmed COVID-19 deaths. This includes deaths where COVID-19 is listed as a “presumed” or “probable” cause... . If the certifier suspects COVID-19 or determines it was likely (e.g., the circumstances were compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), they can report COVID-19 as “probable” or “presumed” on the death certificate (5, 6). COVID-19 is listed as the underlying cause on the death certificate in 92% of deaths (see Table 1). (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/tech_notes.htm_
And as for criteria, the CDC states.
In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgement in determining if a COVID–19 infection was likely. However, please note that testing for COVID–19 should be conducted whenever possible.
Scenario I: A 77-year-old male with a history of hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
A 77-year-old male with a 10-year history of hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presented to a local emergency department complaining of 4 days of fever, cough, and increasing shortness of breath. He reported recent exposure to a neighbor with flu-like symptoms. He stated that his wheezing was not improving with his usual bronchodilator therapy...Testing of respiratory specimens indicated COVID–19. He was admitted to the ICU and despite aggressive treatment, he developed worsening respiratory acidosis and sustained a cardiac arrest on day 3 of admission.
Comment: In this case, the acute respiratory acidosis was the immediate cause of death, so it was reported on line a. Acute respiratory acidosis was precipitated by the COVID–19 infection, which was reported below it on line b. in Part I. The COPD and hypertension were contributing causes but were not a part of the causal sequence in Part I, so those conditions were reported in Part II.
Scenario II: A 34-year-old female with no significant past medical history
A 34-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented to her primary care physician complaining of 6 days of fever, cough, and myalgias. She was found to be febrile, hypotensive, and hypoxic. She was admitted to the hospital and underwent a CT scan of the chest, which revealed diffuse ground-glass opacification indicative of viral pneumonia. Respiratory specimens were sent for testing and rRT-PCR confirmed COVID–19. Her condition deteriorated over the next 2 days and she developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She was transferred to the ICU and started on positive pressure ventilation. Despite aggressive resuscitation, the patient expired on hospital day 4.
Comment: In this case, the immediate cause of death was ARDS, so it was reported on line a. as a consequence of pneumonia, which was reported on line b. The underlying cause of death (UCOD) was COVID–19 so it was reported on line c., the lowest line used in Part I
Scenario III: An 86-year-old female with an unconfirmed case of COVID–19
An 86-year-old female passed away at home. Her husband reported that she was nonambulatory after suffering an ischemic stroke 3 years ago. He stated that 5 days prior, she developed a high fever and severe cough after being exposed to an ill family member who subsequently was diagnosed with COVID–19. Despite his urging, she refused to go to the hospital, even when her breathing became more labored and temperature escalated. She was unresponsive that morning and her husband phoned emergency medical services (EMS). Upon EMS arrival, the patient was pulseless and apneic. Her husband stated that he and his wife had advanced directives and that she was not to be resuscitated. After consulting with medical command, she was pronounced dead and the coroner was notified.
Comment: Although no testing was done, the coroner determined that the likely UCOD was COVID–19 given the patient’s symptoms and exposure to an infected individual. Therefore, COVID–19 was reported on the lowest line used in Part I. Her ischemic stroke was considered a factor that contributed to her death but was not a part of the direct causal sequence in Part I, so it was reported in Part II. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf)
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