Posted on 4/19/2020, 4:47:00 AM by rintintin
"Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.
Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration."
According to the NYT, the CDC's outright failure to follow their own protocols and willingness to make utterly incompetent (intentional?) mistakes, like assembling test ingredients in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples, supposedly symbolized how unprepared the Trump administration was to deal with the outbreak. Really.
The CDC exhibited gross, unprofessional levels of negligence, violated basics of high school lab class protocols and this was somehow Trump's fault? Was President Trump supposed to don a white lab coat and follow CDC scientists around the lab, reminding them to wear masks, not to eat their lunch in the lab etc.
Also in the NYT's article, the discovery of the CDC's collosal error meant, "....the C.D.C. lost credibility as the nation’s leading public health agency...." It should have, but did it? The MSM "took a knee" saying that the CDC lost credibility and then for months afterward used that agency's name, and that of fraudster Dr. Fauci, to batter with sneering comparisons every effort President Trump made to stop the planned-demic.
I do recall many ocaisions over these past months in which the left/MSM/Deep Staters were shrieking that President Trump should listen to the "experts" at the CDC. That's what happens if you're on the Deep State's team; one week later, the CDC and Fauci were portrayed as infallible and used to smear Trump as an incompetent narcissist for trusting his own judgement over that of the CDC's pristine medical "reputation".
When the public learned that the CDC doesn't know basic math, and reported wildly inaccurate 'postive test rates' compiled from hospitals, President Trump opened a health.gov database to reliably collate the statistics. The MSM and other coup Lefties began yelling that the president was needlessly "politicizing the numbers" and portrayed the President's efforts as designed to distort the truth coming from the CDC.
Yes. After the CDC displayed epic levels of incompetence that impacted the nation's ability to test patients for about a month, the CDC then failed to report test results that were even vaguely accurate; but the MSM and traitors in our government STILL demand the President leave all decision making to the CDC. Oh, I could mention the rest of the CDC's failures during the Planned-Demic, but either of the two I already mentioned should be enough to "destroy their reputation".
I'll just leave this here:
Re: “I want to hear someone explain how the CDC ever managed to make enough data collection mistakes to get the death count only 6% correct. That should be impossible.”
Quite simple, actually...
(1) First, they “advised” doctors to count all “presumed” COVID cases as “confirmed” COVID cases.
“The WHO has provided a second code, U07.2, for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available. Because laboratory test results are not typically reported on death certificates in the U.S., NCHS is not planning to implement U07.2 for mortality statistics.”
(2) Second, they “advised” doctors to count all COVID + pneumonia deaths and all COVID + Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome deaths as exclusively COVID deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
“If COVID19 played a role in the death, this condition should be specified on the death certificate. In many cases, it is likely that it will be the UCOD, as it can lead to various life threatening conditions, such as pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).”
UCOD = official cause of death.
That is absolutely NOT how influenza and common cold deaths are counted.
What a stunning stat that in one sentence, describes perfectly how a virus becomes political and why nothing coming out of the CDC is believable...sure makes one wonder how on earth the contributions could be that heavily weighted. Is everyone who works there holdovers from the Maobama administration? Only DemonRats have any interest in diseases?