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Here is my direct quote from the article:
“In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”
The title of the post is accurate and I did not check “this is an except” so I can spell out what the government doc did not say out loud by referencing the CDC quote.
And you couldn't have botched it worse had you tried.
The CDC is withdrawing an old, single-purpose RT-PCR test for Covid. The test was developed very early on and was only used to test for Covid. It never mistook the influenza virus for SARS CoV-2.
The CDC is retiring the test because there are many other FDA-approved options now available that can identify multiple virus, like coronavirus and influenza, from one sample.
I referred to this text:
“The CDC in a ‘Lab Alert’ has admitted that the FDA has dumped all over its junk PCR test because it gives false positives for COVID-19 when the patients actually have been infected the flu influenza viruses.”
And other text presumably written by you under the quote.
Look, this is a valid post. Thanks for posting it. But to follow the rules which exist for good reason it would have been better to have posted the linked CDC article in full (no copyright violations exist) and put your comments in the comment section.
I’m not criticizing you for posting this article from CDC. In fact the opposite. I thank you for that.