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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday that Senate Republicans should require testing for senators and staff if they will not delay a Supreme Court hearing scheduled to start next week, amid an outbreak of coronavirus cases. "Instead of engaging in continuously more absurd and dangerous behavior, Chairman Graham should halt this already illegitimate nomination process, and if he refuses, he must put into place a thorough testing procedure that is in accordance with CDC best practices before hearings can take place," Schumer said in a statement.

German lawyer outlines findings of Commission regarding Covid 19 pandemic. PCR test useless, pandemic was over in May, pandemic pushed by Pharma, etc. Gives good citations to scientific studies/sources. 45 minute video. I think it accurately describes what has gone on for the last 6 months. https://youtu.be/kr04gHbP5MQ

A door-to-door COVID-19 testing survey has been halted due to multiple incidents in greater Minnesota of residents intimidating and shouting racial and ethnic slurs at state and federal public health survey teams. The CDC pulled its federal surveyors out of Minnesota this week following reports of verbal abuse and intimidation, including an incident in the Iowa border town of Eitzen, Minn., in which a survey team walking to a house was blocked by two cars and threatened by three men, according to state health officials. One man had his hand on a holstered gun. Frustration with the state's pandemic response...

A Boston lab suspended coronavirus testing after an investigation uncovered nearly 400 false positive COVID-19 results.

In the past, our reports raising questions about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests have been met with accusations of 'fearmongering' and spreading 'misinformation'. But not today. That's because new research from the University of Oxford’s Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of the West of England has found that the swab-based technique used for most COVID-19 testing is at risk of returning "false positives" since copies of the virus's RNA detected by the tests might simply be dead, inactive material from a weeks-old infection. Although patients infected with COVID-19 are typically only infectious for a week or less,...

PART 1 “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― The New York Times just reported something incredible.You know those standard PCR tests for the COVID-19 virus that everybody in America has been rushing out to get? Well, according to the Times, they’re “diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus” and “are not likely to be contagious.” In fact, when they looked at three sets of testing data from Massachusetts, New York, and Nevada, the Times says that, because of faulty...

Facing a COVID-19 data mess on Tuesday, Florida severed ties with national lab giant Quest Diagnostics, slamming the company for a previously unreported backlog of 75,000 test results from as early as April. “To drop this much unusable and stale data is irresponsible, and Quest has abdicated their ability to perform a testing function in Florida,” the state Department of Health wrote on Twitter. The state also called the backlog a data issue that “does not impact the health of individuals or the spread of COVID-19 in Florida.” Quest issued a public apology, noting there was a technical issue with...

Testing, testing, testing -- that's how Pelosi and the Democrats say we'll defeat the coronavirus. Meanwhile, President Trump and his administration are conducting "operation warp speed" at breakneck pace to develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and a vaccine for the Wuhan flu. Unlike testing, treatments will actually do something for you when you come down sick with the disease. But now we're learning the overwhelming majority of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus should really have been found negative after all. According to (The New York Times), potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such...

Occasionally, someone who genuinely wants to inform the public actually publishes at the New York Times. For months the paper has been a full-throated participant in the COVID-19 panic-porn industry with stories ranging from a rare reaction in children to a “reinfection” in Hong Kong. All of a sudden, reporter Apoora Madavilli came out with an honest report about COVID-19 testing. While I have been writing about this for a few months, it was shocking to see this level of honesty from the Times: Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless...

President Donald Trump plans to announce Thursday the purchase of 150 million rapid Covid-19 tests as part of a $750 million agreement with Abbott Laboratories, a White House official confirmed to NBC News. Trump plans to use his speech at the Republican National Convention to announce the deal, the official said. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. is leading the world in testing,” White House communications director Alyssa Farah said in a statement to NBC News. “This is a major development that will help our country to remain open, get Americans back to work, and kids back to school. The...

(CNN)White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was undergoing surgery and not in the August 20 task force meeting for the discussion on updated US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that suggest asymptomatic people may not need to be tested for Covid-19, even if they've been in close contact with an infected person. "I was under general anesthesia in the operating room and was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding the new testing recommendations" at that meeting, Fauci told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "I am concerned about the interpretation...

My research into the NCBI database for nucleotide sequences has lead to a stunning discovery. One of the WHO primer sequences in the PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 is found in all human DNA! The sequence “CTCCCTTTGTTGTGTTGT” is an 18-character primer sequence found in the WHO coronavirus PCR testing protocol document. The primer sequences are what get amplified by the PCR process in order to be detected and designated a “positive” test result. It just so happens this exact same 18-character sequence, verbatim, is also found on Homo sapiens chromosome 8! As far as I can tell, this means that the...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines. The agency no longer recommends testing for most people without symptoms, even if they’ve been in close contact with someone known to have the virus. Previously, the CDC said viral testing was appropriate for people with recent or suspected exposure, even if they were asymptomatic. Here’s what it says now: “If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with a COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test unless you...

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned against fast-tracking a coronavirus vaccine through an emergency use authorization before it is proven safe in large trials — saying it could have a chilling effect on testing of other inoculations, according to a report. “The one thing that you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA (emergency use authorization) before you have a signal of efficacy,” the nation’s top infectious diseases expert told Reuters. “One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the other vaccines...

Israeli scientists are testing a new ultra-fast gargle-and-spit test for coronavirus on hundreds of patients, and report that so far it is proving 95-percent accurate. The developers have built a USB-powered machine the size of an ashtray, which takes just one second to conduct light analysis of mouthwash that a patient has gargled. They are about halfway through a trial of 400 people at Israel’s largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center, and say that if accuracy levels continue to impress, they expect it to become available internationally by the end of the year. The innovation team, drawn from Sheba and the...

A month after Connecticut officials reported at least 90 false-positive test results, the FDA issued a warning to health care providers using a specific testing kit. There has been a problem with false-positive coronavirus test results coming from the Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit. The FDA approved Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the kit in March.The problem is with the testing kit itself, as well as with an outdated software system. The FDA released a warning to clinical laboratory staff and health care providers of the risk of false results. With updated instructions and updated software, the...

There is a rising concern that athletes who become infected with the new coronavirus may suffer from long-term cardiac issues, and sports organizations are responding with required heart screenings, USA Today reports. Recent research has shown that COVID-19 infections may cause inflammation in the heart for months. A study published in JAMA Cardiology at the end of June examined cardiac magnetic resonance images from 100 COVID-19 patients in Germany. Seventy-eight of the patients had abnormal cardiac MRIs, and 60 showed signs of ongoing myocardial inflammation. At an Aug. 13 media briefing, Brian Hainline, MD, CMO of the NCAA, said that...

As Americans entered summer with a glimmer of hope that COVID-19 might recede, those hopes were quickly dashed after a rapid resurgence of the virus in Sun Belt states. Now approaching midsummer, the numbers continue to surge across the South and Western regions of the United States. Florida and Texas, two of the hardest-hit states besides California and New York, have broken record numbers of cases in the last several weeks. Florida recorded an all-time high of about 15,200 cases in a single day July 11.

There is more than enough evidence today for the American pulic to demand an audit on the legitimacy of the coronavirus numbers. There have been hundreds if not thousands of reports of fraudulent cases. And for some strange reason the CDC demanded America’s doctors count even suspect cases in their coronavirus counts. In Oregon this week the youngest coronavirus victim in the state tested NEGATIVE for the virus...

Story from a regular reader of ours: My wife and I went to get tested at the Covid-19 location up in Norridge. We're older and with assorted health issues, so it made sense. We get registered, they take all of our info and tell us it's a 45 minute wait. No big deal, right? So we wait and wait and wait. After an hour and fifteen minutes, we decided the heck with it and headed home without being tested. We'll just get up earlier and do it in a week or so. Ten days later guess what arrived in the...