WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.
WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.
Most PCR assays are indicated as an aid for diagnosis, therefore, health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information.
Basically updating their guidance to tell people to stop using PCR as sole indicator and to reduce cycle thresholds. Cases will disappear overnight.
I started screaming that COVID was a hoax in January and didn't stop until I was hoarse. Not sure it matters anymore, but hopefully I rescued a handful of people from succumbing to hysteria.
It looks like you can thank Fauci for that 10%: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the coronavirus task force, had previously backed funding for a controversial lab in Wuhan, China, that has been studying the coronavirus in bats, reports said.”
I had it. It’s not the flu. It’s a little like the flu, but it has major differences. My heart rate was 130 walking to the bathroom, which is the blood clotting deal. And I lost all taste for 2 weeks. It was at least 14 days for me.
‘Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, the number of patients visiting emergency rooms nationwide has dropped by 40 to 50 percent, says William Jaquis, M.D., an emergency medicine physician in Aventura, Fla., and president of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
"We are afraid that patients could potentially die at home,” Jaquis warns.
Older adults are especially at risk because they are more likely to have cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic medical conditions that make putting off emergency care especially risky, doctors say.
Dale Criner, M.D., an emergency room physician in Memphis, Tenn., says paramedics there are reporting an increase in the number of cardiac calls they've responded to where the patient died before they arrived.
"When they talk to the family, it turns out the patient had chest pain or shortness of breath for a few days but was too afraid to come to the hospital,” he says. “It's heartbreaking."’
Basically updating their guidance to tell people to stop using PCR as sole indicator and to reduce cycle thresholds. Cases will disappear overnight.
I started screaming that COVID was a hoax in January and didn't stop until I was hoarse. Not sure it matters anymore, but hopefully I rescued a handful of people from succumbing to hysteria.
I think it’s 90% scan and 10% flu-like illness.
It looks like you can thank Fauci for that 10%: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the coronavirus task force, had previously backed funding for a controversial lab in Wuhan, China, that has been studying the coronavirus in bats, reports said.”
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
I had it. It’s not the flu. It’s a little like the flu, but it has major differences. My heart rate was 130 walking to the bathroom, which is the blood clotting deal. And I lost all taste for 2 weeks. It was at least 14 days for me.
It’s literally a flu-like illness. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
And these excess deaths they keep babbling about are largely the result of their fear mongering. https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/er-care-during-covid-19.html
‘Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, the number of patients visiting emergency rooms nationwide has dropped by 40 to 50 percent, says William Jaquis, M.D., an emergency medicine physician in Aventura, Fla., and president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. "We are afraid that patients could potentially die at home,” Jaquis warns. Older adults are especially at risk because they are more likely to have cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic medical conditions that make putting off emergency care especially risky, doctors say. Dale Criner, M.D., an emergency room physician in Memphis, Tenn., says paramedics there are reporting an increase in the number of cardiac calls they've responded to where the patient died before they arrived. "When they talk to the family, it turns out the patient had chest pain or shortness of breath for a few days but was too afraid to come to the hospital,” he says. “It's heartbreaking."’