Posted on 01/28/2021 2:20:09 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
January 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In what some have suggested is politicized timing, the World Health Organization on Wednesday changed the protocol for COVID-19 tests, which will result in large reductions in the numbers of positive cases. The body took this action just one hour after Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidance regarding the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which is being widely used across the globe in order to detect cases of COVID-19. In a short information notice, the WHO referred back to an instruction booklet for COVID testing, released in September 2020, noting that “careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed.”
The guidance warned against diagnosing someone as having the virus just because he tests positive if he does not present with symptoms of COVID-19. It also warned about the high risk of false positives: “The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.”
“As disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases. The probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity,” the WHO continued.
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NY Times celebrated US drop in Covid infections in the last 3 weeks.
And now they are bragging about “lower rates for the past week”
Italy is prosecuting the frauds who pulled this garbage over there.
[And now they are bragging about “lower rates for the past week”]
Of course. Things are getting better under Joe!! Woohoo!!
The World Health Organization does not control the standards for what constitutes a case in the United States. The CDC does. That standard has not changed substantively since April. The standard for case definition for COVID-19 is here: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/case-definition/2020/08/05/
It’s pretty discouraging when the democrats are blatant about their manipulations, and the best accusation is “in what some have suggested is politicized timing”. Outrage is being replaced with timidly expressed possible slight wrongdoings.
“NY Times celebrated US drop in Covid infections in the last 3 weeks.”
Literally, the Monday after pedojoe was “declared winner”, the local talk radio news blurbs changed the wording from number of covid “infections” to number of covid “recoveries”.
A cohort of manipulators/propagandists/liars.
Whaaaaaa????? NO! /s
And they’ve been trying to explain how that meant nothing
every since.
If it meant nothing, why do it? Crickets...
Some people think that the CDC, and the WHO, and Fauxi, and Bill Gates all hung the moon.
All you Covid panicked folks - Why should WE take it seriously when the “experts” in charge are perfectly comfortable playing political games with it??? Seriously.
After ORDERING US to wear masks for the rest of our lives, they take THEIRS off as soon as the cameras go away...
WE can’t eat at restaurants; but THEY can.
WE can’t gather; but THEY can.
And now, they’re practically admitting that they’ve used it all to destroy the economy in order to get Trump out of office.
And here we are with THIS story - One HOUR after the install Plugs, they change the criteria....
How in the world anyone takes this crap seriously and lives in a perpetual panic is beyond me..
I’ll be sure to feel sorry for you when I’m shelling out $25,000 dollars in Joe Biden’s firearms taxes.
ya well a long time planned trip to take my recently discharged AE2 daughter and here siblins to Turks and Caicos for 2 weeks as a congrats trip, all fell apart today because of the new travel restrictions... PCR test to go, and now to come back into the states. I could not risk one of us showing a false positive and being left back alone...I lost half my airfares and ALL of my 4K for a beach front Airbnb...
I thought for sure things would ease up once the dems took over, but was i fkng way off!! (...walks away licking my wounds...)
In april they changed to single target positive. No other pcr test is allowed to do so. It was never about health.
Screw this stupid bug !
Don’t ever get tested !
Good post Joe.
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