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President Trump has officially tested negative for COVID-19, according to a letter from White House physician Sean Conley. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany released a memo from Dr. Conley on Twitter in which he explained, “I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on consecutive days, using the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen card.” “Repeatedly negative antigen tests, taken in context with additional clinical and laboratory data, including viral load, subgeneric RNA, and PCR style threshold measurements, as well as an ongoing assessment of viral culture data, all indicate a lack of detectable viral replication,” Conley continued. “This comprehensive...

California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that “the seven-day positivity rate is absolutely affected” by the issue. It’s unclear to what extent and for how long cases have been undercounted, and how this situation differs from the more routine delays when test reporting lags over weekends. Los Angeles public health officials last week warned that it was expecting a backlog in cases “due to previous reporting delays in the state electronic lab system.” The following day, the county reported highs of 4,825 new coronavirus cases and 91 deaths. Other counties, including Sacramento, Placer and Orange —...

First it was fake news and now we have fake test results! I am trying to understand why President Trump, Fauci, Birx, the CDC and the W.H.O. keep saying the Covid-19 testing is what matters? At the very same time we are hearing and reading the "test results" for Covid 19 are being artificially inflated and extremely unreliable? For instance, it is admitted in States like New York and Ohio that everything is being labeled Covid-19. This includes people that were never tested! Even with this artifactual inflation of the numbers, the death count numbers are 20 times lower than...

Well, my Homeschooled 13-year-old daughter (going into the 9th grade) got her Iowa Test results back, and I would like the help of anyone out there (an educator, a professor, etc.) who might be able to tell me what you can make of them, to let me know. I am divided as to whether I should be ecstatic or concerned. In the Cognitive Abilities Test, my daughter's Composite National Percentile Rank was 90, but this is due in great measure to her verbal ability which was 99 NPR, which means that "compared with other eighth grade students nationally, Emily scored...

<p>More than half of the high school students who took the state's high school graduation test this spring failed its math and English sections, meaning they will have to retake the test or they won't receive a high school diploma.</p>

<p>Holding schools accountable for providing a quality education by setting standards and testing to see if they meet these standards is a major focus of U.S. educational reform. But most reform efforts target only the local public school systems, from kindergarten to high school. As the cost of an undergraduate degree skyrockets, parents ought to wonder what they and their children are getting in return for their tuition payments.</p>