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Served Its Purpose? CDC and FDA Recall Faulty COVID PCR Test
American Thinker.com ^ | July 27, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph M.D

Posted on 07/27/2021 3:51:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week, big media was salivating over the COVID Delta variant and recommendations for indoor masking, even for the vaccinated, masking young children, and the possibility of a return to last year, with social distancing, capacity limits, and business closures.

There were also news stories that the media dutifully ignored, like ongoing election audits, Hunter Biden’s laptop, his father’s growing inability to think and speak coherently, and growing inflation and unemployment.

Also somehow missed by the investigative sleuths at CNN and MSNBC was the recall of a COVID rapid antigen test last month. This wasn’t just any recall but according to the FDA a serious one, “The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall. Use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death.” That’s an understatement.

Specifically, this is the Innova SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test using a nasal swab and test strip, with a colored line appearing if the person has the Chinese coronavirus. None of these tests are FDA-approved, only being used under emergency use authorization, like the COVID vaccines.

Who used these tests? According to the FDA, these were used by health care providers and large testing programs such as on college campuses. The faulty test provided both false-negative and false-positive results, each problematic but in different ways.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 07/27/2021 3:51:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

So what’s the issue? False positives? False negatives?


2 posted on 07/27/2021 3:56:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Kaslin

From the article:

“Who makes this recalled test? Innova Medical Group, headquartered in Pasadena, Calfornia, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pasaca Capital, Inc. Pasaca is a private equity firm, also headquartered in Pasadena, whose founder and CEO, Charles Huang, PhD, received his undergraduate degree in economics from Wuhan University, China, where he grew up. All roads in the COVID story seem to lead to Wuhan.”


3 posted on 07/27/2021 4:06:06 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Everything about this “pandemic” has been a propped up strawman. PCR tests were being questioned this time last year, and it was discovered that they were amplifying the miniscule results several times to get a workable solution. Now they’re coming out to say that, “Oh, maybe this EUA for a flu swab isn’t such a good idea for detecting COVID considering the seriousness of the illness.” At some point someone has to ask, “were any of the COVID numbers legitimate?”

(For the FReepers who like to bully people who talk about scientific stuff, GFY. I’m not claiming to be a scientist. I’m just recalling from memory.)


4 posted on 07/27/2021 4:07:52 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Kaslin

this has been TREASON and SEDITION organized
by the DNC/BIGpharma/Soros/Gates/WHO
to murder the American People by LIES, FRAUD,
and a PLANNED faulty COVID PCR test.

it was all their plan because THEY
KNEW that with the first pedophile, the DNC,
and the CCP-beholden RINOs, there would NEVER
be accountability.

only more morbidity and mortality.


5 posted on 07/27/2021 4:09:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Mostly false positives as it uses a high threshold
counts to determine a finding for da covid.

Also “The other major problem is that these tests do not differentiate between COVID and influenza.”

Basically it is worthless. As we suspect, most of those who got da covid and died, most likely died from a bad flu.

Welcome to being lied to by the globalists.


6 posted on 07/27/2021 4:11:06 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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To: Kaslin
The story makes an important point, that the test doesn't just create false positives to gin up panic. Too many people seem to think that's the only nefarious purpose of faulty tests..

But the other purpose is false negatives so people who are infectious go out and spread the virus to weakened or compromised people.

7 posted on 07/27/2021 4:11:11 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Kaslin

More proof that Covid has been one big psy. op. Now they are starting Part Two with the Delta variant. How much longer will the populous be manipulated with this nonsense?


8 posted on 07/27/2021 4:13:46 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: HypatiaTaught
As we suspect, most of those who got da covid and died, most likely died from a bad flu.

COVID is a bad flu. It kills at least 2-3 times the worst flu we have seen (e.g. 68-69)

9 posted on 07/27/2021 4:13:48 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Read the whole article. Those are just some of the many problems with the test…but essentially, his overall point is that the test is completely unreliable by any standard yet has been used to produce the “data” for which human society and the worlds economies have been destroyed. Oh, and the founder and CEO of the parent company (a private equity firm headquartered in CA) of the test manufacturer is Chinese and a graduate of Wuhan University.


10 posted on 07/27/2021 4:15:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: palmer

So you agree, we just went through a bad flu.

All the B.S. for a bad flu.

P.S. 94% of these deaths were attributed to co-morbidities.

AND NOT the flu as they had one leg in the casket from their poor health.

This is what the Globalists do, they take something that occurs in nature, like the weather, “Global warming”, the Flu and hype the SHITE out of it. The sheeple follow along. Easy Peasy!


11 posted on 07/27/2021 4:24:28 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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To: Kaslin

And to think Bill Gates and George Soros just purchased a company that makes Covid tests, how lucky is that? Nothing to see here move along


12 posted on 07/27/2021 4:29:33 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, this is just part of the statistical lies and tricks of those keeping that records of the Covid “Pandemic”.


13 posted on 07/27/2021 5:03:12 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Kaslin

Yes, this is just part of the statistical lies and tricks of those keeping that records of the Covid “Pandemic”.


14 posted on 07/27/2021 5:03:12 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: HypatiaTaught
Mostly false positives as it uses a high threshold counts to determine a finding for da covid.

They changed the number of amplification steps as needed during this mess. What ever they needed to show they tweaked the sensitivity.

Figures never Lie, but Liars Figure.

15 posted on 07/27/2021 5:06:31 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Diogenesis

Yes, just like the elections.


16 posted on 07/27/2021 5:07:19 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Kaslin
The PCR “test” was not designed to be a test for illness/infection. The bogus tests were part of the scam from the start. Need to scare the moron sheeple? Do lots of testing, and inflate the “COVID cases” and/or “deaths” by a factor of 23 because the “test” produces false positives at a rate of 94%.

The entire “COVID” pandemic is a lie, a hoax created by manipulation of the numbers.

17 posted on 07/27/2021 5:10:15 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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were these two MURDERED on the Order of the FDA, CDC, or Gates?


18 posted on 07/27/2021 5:15:10 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: livius

Great brief summary, livius!


19 posted on 07/27/2021 6:03:22 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Kaslin

FAKE pandemic during a really bad flu year with one new corona virus working simultaneously with the historic viruses lumped into the seasonal flu.


20 posted on 07/27/2021 6:49:38 AM PDT by Wuli
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