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  • A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

    06/12/2022 9:52:51 AM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 40 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | JUNE 10, 2022 | Katherine J. Wu
    In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined indoors with friends. The next morning, her symptoms worsened. Knowing her parents were driving in for Mother’s Day, she tested again—and saw a very bright positive. Which meant three not-so-great things: She needed to cancel with her parents; she had likely exposed her friends; a test had apparently taken three days to register what her vaccinated body had already figured out. Tests are not and never have been perfect, but since around the rise...
  • Parents cautioned of possible toxic substance found in at-home COVID-19 test kits

    02/28/2022 6:36:04 AM PST · by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas · 22 replies
    WCAX NEWS ^ | Feb. 22, 2022 | FOX19 Digital Staff and Gray News staff
    CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - Officials are advising parents to keep at-home COVID-19 test kits away from kids because they could contain a harmful, toxic substance. The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center is reporting an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance in at-home COVID-19 test kits, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center said in a blog post on its website. Poison control centers nationwide are reporting the same finding, WXIX reported. This comes as more than 50 million households recently received free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government, according to Dr. Tom Inglesby, senior advisor for...
  • Another Major COVID Testing Company — Which Got $186 Million From The Feds — Is Under Investigation As Complaints Pile Up

    01/27/2022 8:31:50 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 16 replies
    Block Club Chicago ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Kelly Bauer
    O'Hare Clinical Lab, a Chicago-based testing chain with pop-ups across the United States, is facing complaints and investigations in multiple states. Some customers told Block Club their results were delayed by weeks — or never arrived at all. But some customers told Block Club they’re still waiting on results from tests they took weeks ago. A suburban Glenview woman said she went to an O’Hare Clinical Lab testing site three times with her family in early January, taking rapid and PCR tests. The rapid tests came back negative — but they’ve yet to receive any of the PCR test results...
  • Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday

    01/10/2022 12:09:50 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 26 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | January 10, 2022 | By ZEKE MILLER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks to lower costs and make testing for the virus more convenient amid rising frustrations. President Joe Biden faced criticism over the holiday season for a shortage of at-home rapid tests as Americans traveled to see family amid the surge in cases from the more transmissible omicron variant. Now the administration is working to make COVID-19 home tests more accessible, both by increasing supply and...
  • Home test false positives-First hand experience.

    01/05/2022 11:43:55 AM PST · by Openurmind · 129 replies
    Myself | 1/05/22 | Myself
    Not to be biased, but I felt I needed to share some first hand knowledge from the last few days regarding the home tests. Two of my daughters are nurses in a major hospital. Both along with three other nurses they work closely with, and two of their children came down with the dreaded "symptoms". So they all took home tests that showed positive for Covid. As a work and school requirement for the kids, they all had to take the longer term 48 hr test before they could return to work and school. All tested negative with the second...
  • Biden signs $137 million deal with German pharmaceutical company for COVID test strip factory that will take THREE YEARS to build and will start producing 83.3 million tests a month in late 2024 at the earliest

    12/30/2021 1:14:34 PM PST · by Mount Athos · 60 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 12/30/2021 | KATELYN CARALLE
    Biden administration struck a deal a German company to build a factory in Wisconsin to increase production of COVID-19 testing kits MilliporeSigma's new factory will pump out 83.3 million tests per month – but the facility won't be operational for another three years 'Construction is expected to begin the second half of 2022 and initial planning and preparatory work is already underway,' a MilliporeSigma spokesperson said They told DailyMail.com: 'We estimate that the facility will be capable of providing lateral flow membranes in the latter part of 2024' Fuels speculation the administration thinks testing will still be needed in 2025...
  • CDC Director Drops Bombshell Calling COVID Testing Protocol Into Question

    12/29/2021 4:18:03 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/29/2021 | Nick Arama
    CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made a stunning comment on “Good Morning America” today. LATEST: The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @GMA. https://t.co/p6HUxeD4Go pic.twitter.com/TmVaF0eRcG— ABC News (@ABC) December 29, 2021#CDC just dropped "new science" on PCR testsThe newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks pic.twitter.com/z4aJIGToFz— La French ConAction..🇫🇷 (@LFConaction) December 29, 2021The newly updated CDC guidelines don’t require testing at the...
  • BREAKING: Agency Review Confirms COVID-19 Test Kits ‘Contaminated’ After Production; Featured Initial Design Flaw

    12/17/2021 5:59:52 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 14 replies
    WeLoveTrump.com ^ | December 16, 2021 | Tyler
    In February 2020 when the fight against COVID was ramping up and the CDC was taking measures to address the pandemic, the agency was of course tasked to develop test kits under the Emergency Use Authorization Act. The kits were designed and mass produced for distribution to medical labs across the country. In record time, the CDC was able to develop a plausible kit to deploy. But there was only one problem. Specific flaws within test kits caused a massive flood of FALSE POSITIVES. Those numbers were then used by the Globalist Media to catapult their narrative of PANIC and...
  • Fauci: 'We Really Want to Flood the System With Testing'; 200-500 Million Tests Per Month

    12/04/2021 12:58:31 PM PST · by rktman · 140 replies
    cnsnews.com ^ | 12/3/2021 0512 hrs et | Susan Jones
    The Biden administration's strategy for dealing with COVID this winter includes widespread testing, as announced by President Biden on Thursday -- a message later amplified by Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday evening: "I mean, the president made that announcement in his five-part plan to address what we're going to be facing this winter," Fauci told MSNBC's Chris Hayes. "And one of them that we've spoken about and will happen is to really flood the system with tests, including free tests. "And, in fact, what people are not aware of is that there's an investment of billions of dollars to make...
  • FDA Admits Home PCR Test Kits Contain Known ‘Hazardous’ Drug

    12/28/2021 9:08:46 AM PST · by Red Badger · 67 replies
    https://thelibertyloft.com ^ | 28 DECEMBER 2021 | by Seth Hancock
    WASHINGTON — A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a media sheet detailing the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Home Test Kit which is chalked full of contradictory statements but also stunning admissions. Joe Biden announced last week that he, actually the American taxpayers, was purchasing 500 million at-home test kits at a cost of $3 billion. He also announced the use of military to be sent across the nation to administer COVID-19 “vaccines.” Increased testing has coincided with case numbers rising then used for justification to keep the medical authoritarianism going. The FDA media sheet admits the “solution in the...
  • New Yorkers wait in line for hours to get COVID-19 tests during surge

    12/19/2021 7:43:25 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 52 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/18/2021 | Georgette Robert
    Instead of lining up to see Santa or waiting to buy Christmas gifts, New Yorkers stood for hours Saturday to get COVID-19 tests as cases continued to surge. Residents fumed as they waited for the nasal swabs in order to travel or because they thought they might have the virus. At a city-run testing and vaccination center in Times Square on Saturday afternoon, the wait was about three hours. “I’m cold and frustrated. We are in such a big city, there should be more options available,” said Alessandra Abate, 29, a graduate student from Dumbo who had been in line...
  • COVID-19 test makers, labs warned demand could soon double or even triple: report

    12/16/2021 10:30:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/16/2021 | LEXI LONAS
    The Biden administration has warned COVID-19 test makers and labs that demand for tests could soon double or even triple, five people familiar with the situation told Politico. The Health and Human Services Department’s Testing and Diagnostic Working Group shared an internal model with the diagnostic industry that projects the country needing more COVID-19 tests on top of the more than 1.6 million currently used daily. The model shows 3 million to 5 million daily tests needed by January or February, an estimate that makes the assumption the omicron variant is three to five times more transmissible than delta and...
  • MIT’s New Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensor Can Detect COVID-19 or Other Emerging Pathogens [In Minutes!]

    10/26/2021 11:35:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | Oct 26th, 2021 | By MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    The researchers incorporated their sensor into a prototype with a fiber optic tip that can detect changes in fluorescence in the test sample. Credit: MIT The technology could be developed as a rapid diagnostic for Covid-19 or other emerging pathogens. Using specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have designed a novel sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 without any antibodies, giving a result within minutes. Their new sensor is based on technology that can quickly generate rapid and accurate diagnostics, not just for Covid-19 but for future pandemics, the researchers say. “A rapid test means that you can open up travel much...
  • Australian Medical Manufacturer Recalls Nearly 200,000 COVID-19 Tests in US Over ‘False Positive’ Results

    10/06/2021 8:14:34 AM PDT · by MNJohnnie · 11 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 10-06-21 | Katabella Roberts
    Nearly 200,000 at-home COVID-19 tests in the United States have been recalled by Australian medical tech manufacturer Ellume after the company identified that they produced an incorrect positive result. Ellume was given an emergency authorization in December by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to supply the COVID-19 Home Test for non-prescription use by symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals aged 2 years and older. The home tests deliver results within 15 minutes. The Biden administration signed a $231.8 million deal with the company, which initially got the green light from the Trump administration last year, to produce to over 633,000...
  • WH defends not requiring negative COVID test from illegal migrants

    09/20/2021 1:54:33 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/20/221 | Callie Patteson
    White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the Biden administration’s decision not to require coronavirus vaccines or negative COVID-19 tests for people illegally crossing the border to seek asylum, claiming they are “not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time.” In recent days, thousands of migrants from Haiti and other countries have flooded the southern border seeking permanent asylum in the US. Many reached a processing bottleneck in Del Rio, Texas, last week, leaving over 12,000 migrants to camp under a bridge, sparking coronavirus and security threat concerns among local and state leaders. During Monday’s daily press...
  • How at-home coronavirus testing is becoming part of Biden’s plan for managing the pandemic

    09/11/2021 7:15:12 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 44 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 9/10/2021 | Derek Hawkins and Fenit Nirappil
    The covid-19 response plan President Biden unveiled Thursday envisions a sweeping expansion of coronavirus testing, aiming to make quick-turnaround test kits cheaper and more accessible than ever as the country tries to quell the wave of infections driven by the delta variant. Leaning on test manufacturers to ramp up production, the administration wants to send hundreds of millions of rapid and at-home tests to local clinics, schools and other establishments nationwide in hopes of making it easier for people to catch infections and contain outbreaks early. Major retailers have also joined the push, offering at-home tests to consumers at less...
  • Biden pushes rapid COVID checks — despite accuracy issues

    09/09/2021 6:39:58 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/9/21 | Samuel Chamberlain September 9, 2021
    President Biden announced Thursday that the federal government will shell out $2 billion to buy almost 300 million rapid tests for COVID-19 – despite the fact that the tests are woefully inaccurate compared to PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, tests. Biden said the rapid tests would be distributed to community health centers, food banks and schools across the US “so that every American, no matter their income, can access free and convenient tests.” However, rapid COVID-19 tests — which typically involve a health professional swabbing a person’s nose or throat but also have at-home versions — vary in accuracy depending...
  • Vacation in Hawaii: Prison on the Pacific

    04/05/2021 4:18:05 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 29 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | April 5, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeoph
    Hawaii is an American gem, a collection of island paradises that one can travel to in a reasonable period of time from most of the US mainland. Hawaii poses no issues with language, currency, or cell phone service. The climate is wonderful, with beaches, palm trees, and sea breezes. Under COVID however, visiting Hawaii is more like checking into prison with myriad rules and procedures, including monitored quarantine and GPS bracelets. Virtually all countries requiring a COVID test for admission allow the standard PCR test now available ubiquitously in any pharmacy, lab, or parking lot test center. But not Hawaii....
  • How does the PCR test distinguish between Covid-19 and the Delta variant?

    07/29/2021 7:29:44 AM PDT · by Scooter100 · 52 replies
    How does the PCR test distinguish between Covid-19 and the Delta variant? I think we're being hoodwinked.
  • NIH Scientists Develop Faster, Cheaper COVID-19 Test

    08/17/2021 8:18:56 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | By NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) AUGUST 17, 2021
    Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new sample preparation method to detect SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method bypasses extraction of the virus’ genetic RNA material, simplifying sample purification and potentially reducing test time and cost. The method is the result of a collaboration among researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI), the NIH Clinical Center (CC), and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Diagnostic testing remains a crucial tool in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 involve amplifying viral RNA to detectable levels...