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(07-27-2021 10:33 AM)fsquid Wrote:  My family were good people until Memorial Day 2020, after that, we were done with it.

My kids are 3, 5, and 12. We've been rolling the dice since day 1. Didn't need a year's worth of data to tell us the damage of isolating those kids would be a helluva a lot worse for them than the virus. We had the cops called on us 4 different times last summer for shite like the kids playing outside and not distancing and my 12 year old and his friends were at a small neighborhood public beach illegally and some kunt called the cops. Only thing we did with regards to precautions was keep them away from the grandparents for ~1 month (until Easter 2020). At that point, I figured they are of sound mind and have earned the right to make their own risk decisions.
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(07-27-2021 09:24 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  How can anyone be confused. They're been flip flopping like this for 18 months. It's all part of their plan.

Destabilization. Just when you think the boat has stopped rocking they come along and set the waves in motion again.
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(07-27-2021 10:13 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  since many don’t understand muh prose, I’m going full blown ‘commando’ as a tribute…

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(07-27-2021 10:25 AM)UofMTigerTim Wrote:  
(07-27-2021 09:27 AM)Niner National Wrote:  I’m good. I did my part. Wore a mask until vaccine came out. Got vaccinated. Not going backwards.

Yep.

Vaccine sent me to the hospital and had on-going issues for a two months Not going to get a booster shot. You know that is what is coming next.

Glad you're ok so far.
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(07-27-2021 10:33 AM)fsquid Wrote:  My family were good people until Memorial Day 2020, after that, we were done with it.

So that was when you went bad?
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(07-27-2021 10:46 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  
(07-27-2021 10:33 AM)fsquid Wrote:  My family were good people until Memorial Day 2020, after that, we were done with it.

My kids are 3, 5, and 12. We've been rolling the dice since day 1. Didn't need a year's worth of data to tell us the damage of isolating those kids would be a helluva a lot worse for them than the virus. We had the cops called on us 4 different times last summer for shite like the kids playing outside and not distancing and my 12 year old and his friends were at a small neighborhood public beach illegally and some kunt called the cops. Only thing we did with regards to precautions was keep them away from the grandparents for ~1 month (until Easter 2020). At that point, I figured they are of sound mind and have earned the right to make their own risk decisions.

I'll never forget the day they reopened the beaches here last year. I had never seen it so packed before in my life.
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(07-27-2021 10:33 AM)fsquid Wrote:  My family were good people until Memorial Day 2020, after that, we were done with it.

So that was when you went bad?

according to some family members, yes. Same with us being unvaccinated.
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GOP Governors Reject Biden Admin’s New Mask Guidance, Blast Additional Mandates


Quote:Republican governors are slamming updated guidance from the Biden administration instructing vaccinated people to mask indoors and pushing universal masking in K-12 schools.

A group of GOP governors announced that their states would not be following the CDC’s guidance, which “revised” some of the CDC’s previous recommendations. The CDC changed its guidance because of the spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant. Governors argued that the availability and widespread use of vaccines has negated any need for additional mask requirements.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson called the new guidance “disappointing and concerning” that the agency would make a seemingly political decision not based on science in crafting its masking guidelines.

“The recently updated CDC guidance regarding mask wearing for fully vaccinated individuals is disappointing and concerning. It’s disappointing because it is inconsistent with the overwhelming evidence surrounding the efficacy of the vaccines and their proven results,” Parson said in a statement Wednesday. “It only serves to disrupt the increases we are seeing in vaccine uptake. This self-inflicted setback encourages skepticism and vaccine hesitancy at a time when the goal is to prevent serious illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 through vaccination.”

“It’s concerning because the nation’s top public health agency appears to be cowering to the political pressures of those who only want to force mandates and shutdowns, which only further prolong the recovery. This decision only promotes fear & further division among our citizens,” he added.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that his state would not be implementing another mask mandate no matter the CDC’s changing guidance.

“The time for government mask mandates is over — now is the time for personal responsibility. In May, I signed an executive order prohibiting mask mandates by gov’t entities,” Abbott said in a statement. “Every Texan has the right to choose whether they will wear a mask or have their children wear masks.”

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts slammed the CDC and said the new guidance “flies in the face of the public health goals that should guide the agency’s decision making.”

“The CDC announcement only furthers the distrust many have with the CDC and does not help to encourage more people to get the vaccines that are helping bring the pandemic to a conclusion. The State of Nebraska will not be adopting their mask guidance,” Ricketts said Tuesday. “Furthermore, I will reiterate my expectations for schools and universities in the fall. Schools should convene in person without mask or vaccine requirements.”

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds additionally slammed the new guidance: “The Biden Administration’s new COVID-19 guidance telling fully vaccinated Iowans to now wear masks is not only counterproductive to our vaccination efforts but also not grounded in reality or common sense. I’m concerned that this guidance will be used as a vehicle to mandate masks in states and schools across the country, something I do not support.”

“The vaccine remains our strongest tool to combat COVID-19, which is why we are going to continue to encourage everyone to get the vaccine,” she added. “I am proud that we recently put new laws in place that will protect Iowans against unnecessary government mandates in our schools and local governments. As I have throughout this pandemic, I trust Iowans to do the right thing.”

The CDC Director Can Jump in All the Lakes After Her Latest Endorsement


Quote:It’s been a hectic week of messaging, if you can even call it that, from the White House on COVID-19. Despite the objective data showing that the Delta variant is not only not a crisis, but that we are nearing lows in deaths across the country from the coronavirus, politicians and bureaucrats must seek to protect themselves with mindless distractions like mask mandates. It’d be way too much to ask for them to actually follow the science.



But CDC Director Rochelle Walensky took things a step further today. While appearing on CNN with John Berman, who himself is insufferable, Walensky endorsed the idea of vaccine passports in the European mold.



I’m trying to think of someone worse at their job not named Joe Biden than Walensky, and it’s kind of tough. This woman is incoherent on so many levels. Just yesterday, she came out and announced that we could be a few mutations away from the vaccines not working at all. Now, how do you think that’s going to affect vaccine hesitancy?


No one is going to bother to get the vaccine if they are being told it might not even work a month from now. It’s that kind of insane lack of forethought that has marked Walensky’s tenure.

Endorsing vaccine passports such as those in France (which have caused rioting, I might add) is just another ridiculous misstep. It eschews the real issue, which is not showering vaccines on every person who is breathing, but rather, the need to target those who are actually most vulnerable. People with natural immunity (i.e. via prior infection) have been shown to have protection from the major effects of reinfection. Both the vaccine and natural immunity do their jobs in protecting a person from death, and that’s the primary issue. Nothing is full-proof, and the fact that government officials have often insinuated otherwise about the vaccine has not helped matters. Ignoring natural immunity breeds distrust because it appears to many people to be a political decision.

Regardless, it is not the government’s job, state or federal, to tell people they can’t exercise basic rights of movement and commerce without having a piece of paper that ignores millions of people who scientifically have protection from the virus. This kind of “all or nothing” hysteria involving the vaccine has actually caused more hesitancy, in my opinion. Lots of people look at the CDC’s incoherence, see them ignoring science, and conclude they can’t trust anything they say. And is that unreasonable given their track record? I don’t think so, and it’s solely the fault of the Biden administration and its incompetence.

Republican governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis, who got out in front of any vaccine passport push with a ban, deserve accolades for staying on the offensive. In doing so, they’ve ensured they aren’t left fighting a losing, reactionary battle. That so many GOP states haven’t also banned vaccine passports is not going to end well because once the federal government gets its nose under the tent, the whole thing is going to eventually come crashing down.

Walensky needed to be fired yesterday, but I have no confidence the Biden administration would replace her with someone actually capable of doing a good job. Rather, politics and irrationality under the guise of playing it safe have overtaken the CDC fully. They’ve destroyed the credibility of the scientific community along the way, and that’s unfortunate. No one is going to be listening to them on mask guidance nor vaccine passports.

Get Ready for the Whiplash With What CDC Director Says About 'Two Weeks'


Quote:Here we go all over again.

The CDC has flipped and is once again recommending that people go back to wearing masks, even if fully vaccinated, in areas where the Delta variant is “surging” (which they are defining as most of the country). As my colleague Kate Paul Dillon wrote earlier, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed data showed some vaccinated people could be infected with the Delta variant and spread it to others, but didn’t show her work as to that data.

Walensky was making the round on the shows and it was like a throwback to last year in what they were trying to sell us.

According to the AP, Dr. Walensky told “CBS This Morning” something that may sound awfully familiar.

“We can halt the chain of transmission,” she said. “We can do something if we unify together, if we get people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated, if we mask in the interim, we can halt this in just a matter of a couple of weeks.”

Oh, my, suddenly, we’re back to “15 days to slow the spread” more than a year later. We were told that 16 months ago. How did that work out when we acceded to that before? Wasn’t getting vaccinated supposed to stop this?

Somehow, it seems that when you give government control, they always want to take a little more, and they have a hard time giving it up.

But Walensky also said something else that was pretty troubling when she went on CNN with John Berman — that there isn’t any evidence that the Delta variant makes kids any sicker than the original Wuhan coronavirus. Yet they’re still going to call for masks on everyone in K-12, whatever their vaccination status.



So then where is the science for this? Is any of this truly based on science? You listen to the U.K. stat that John Berman cites, actually asking a real journalism question. It’s one more stat that shows that kids are not hit as hard by the virus. If true, then even if children get it, over 99.9% will survive. So you would subject kids to masking for what reason, if that’s true?

They just told us two weeks ago on July 9 that vaccinated teachers and students didn’t have to wear masks.



We’re being told things, with government wanting to lead us around by the nose without the science or data to support the extreme things that they are proposing. Just when we thought we were getting free of it, they want to throw us back in the barrel again for another spin around. They just can’t seem to give it up. Are you getting whiplash yet? Because that’s surely what it feels like.

CDC Director Walensky Fails to Show Her Work, Again


Quote:In what is perhaps the pinnacle of health policy self-sabotage so far in this pandemic, the CDC announced yesterday updated recommendations for a return to masking, motivated by fears of slight surges in COVID-19 cases and the Delta variant. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky reiterated that while most COVID transmission is between unvaccinated individuals,

“information on the Delta variant from several states and other countries indicate that in rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others. This new science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our recommendations.”

This would be some concerning new data indeed, except Walensky never cited what data – from “several” states and countries – she was referring to, and of course, not one question in the briefing asked her to clarify. No updates to the CDC website including this data or any follow-up press releases to name the studies in particular have been released.

There is some speculation by AP, and others, that the concern of the CDC is based on one Chinese study made public earlier this month. The study, currently unpublished and not peer-reviewed, looks at 126 samples and assumes transmissibility by finding a 1260 times higher viral load. The study seems to not account for or include information on the vaccination status of the individuals, which vaccine they might have had, nor does it empirically connect the transmissibility or infectiousness of Delta to the increased viral load – it is inferred.

We do know that there are currently multiple peer-reviewed studies that do specifically trace the transmissibility of COVID-19 in vaccinated individuals. One study, released two days before the Chinese report, follows over 100,000 individuals with the Moderna vaccines, and calculates that the vaccine reduces transmissibility by “at least 61%.” Again, this is transmissibility – the probability the virus will be passed on to you – not vaccine efficacy, which would deal with the percentage reduction in infected (which we know to be over 90% for Moderna and Pfizer vaccines). Another article in pre-print, though it should be noted it is an update of a previous paper, examines and collates the literature on the transmissibility of COVID-19 among vaccinated individuals. The meta-analysis of 33 studies shows, among others, that

“Evidence from two large household surveillance studies from the UK suggests that a single or full dose of AstraZeneca (AZ) and Pfizer-BioNtech (PfBnT) vaccines may prevent household transmission of COVID-19 after 14 days of vaccination by up to 54%.”

Many of the other included studies report prevention of transmission from 59% to 90%, depending on exposure as well as symptomatic vs asymptomatic infections. Seven included studies discovered lower viral loads in vaccinated individuals when compared to unvaccinated individuals.

So, let’s go back to the CDC and Director Walensky. One would hope that a grand statement that flies in the face of all previous evidence regarding transmission, viral loads, infection rates, and vaccines would be backed by significant data and peer-reviewed publications.

Nope.

Dr. Walensky never shows her work, cites no sources, and leaves it up to the journalists to investigate her claims. Obviously, few do, and even then the AP can only find one small study without peer-review that they assume these guidance changes could be based on. Taking an authority figure by their word, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary with no stated evidence to the contrary, is not science. It is faith.

This is not the first time the CDC Director has taken liberties in making broad moralizing statements without providing any evidence, and it is not nearly the first time the press has simply failed to ask for that data.

In the White House briefing on July 16th, Walensky infamously stated that we have a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and cited that nearly 97% of hospitalizations for COVID are unvaccinated individuals. This followed on the heels of another – unchallenged – statement by Dr. Fauci on “Meet The Press” that 99% of hospitalizations are caused by the unvaccinated. Neither individual backs up how they arrived at these figures, what their methodology was, or what data they might actually be citing (are we dealing with recent cases? All cases since vaccinations started? Are we including all COVID positives regardless of the reason for being hospitalized?).

The press, of course, ran with the rhetoric and attempted to create or devise their own methodologies for coming to similar conclusions. The AP states in one article they did their calculations in-house and then proceeds to show basic division and subtraction to conclude their figures. Unfortunately, they and many other outlets calculated a percentage of vaccinated vs unvaccinated, but it is an essentially useless number. It is presented by these outlets as a measurement of risk, except it can’t possibly be – as it ignores accounting for baseline risks. Journalists are not statisticians and should not pretend to be. The Washington Post gives a little more information for their own data visualizations, describing their methodology as follows:

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But this methodology includes information from the CDC, apparently related to the 97% statement, without stating what – or where – that information is. There is no link, no data set, and no citations to the CDC data – which seems to have never publicly existed. Even in the Powerpoint notes for Walensky’s July 16 briefing, there are no citations that might suggest where the data they use is coming from, or what methodology was used to calculate that data.

Again, Walensky wants us to take her word on faith alone, and many do.

The thing is, Walensky maybe be right. Evidence may well exist or emerge that shows the Delta variant is just as transmissible in vaccinated individuals or that 97% of current COVID-19 hospitalizations are from the unvaccinated. But without the data and methodology, there is nothing to back her claims, and zero ability to critique those claims. For instance, does the 97% figure control for socioeconomic determinants of health, or does it assume each individual has equal access to healthcare? Does it account for demographic variation and compare the ill individuals to healthy individuals within those demographic constraints? Does the number account for already terminal patients who find the vaccine unnecessary?

These are just a few of the very valid and expected considerations when one wants to crunch this kind of data, yet all we are left to do is assume. We’re expected to have a blind trust, blind faith, in the same people who refuse to cite their own sources. Based on these figures, Walensky unhelpfully suggested that “nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable.” Behind Walensky’s sleight of hand, there is a suggestion that the percentage of unvaccinated in hospitals extrapolates to the extent to which vaccination reduces risk. That, however, is entirely scientifically unsound. When comparing risks, finding a suitable comparator is crucial. This ignores baseline risks – persons who are unvaccinated for various reasons, often outside their control, might also be predisposed towards worse clinical outcomes. America deserves truth and science from the CDC, not inappropriate risk measurements and semantic trickery.

The CDC Director’s unwillingness to be transparent, up-front, and open about her data and methods is not only concerning on a critical scientific level – it has also resulted in one disastrous implosion of public health policy and communications after another. The head of the CDC just threw out random numbers that have not been published in anything of repute, including the CDC’s own peer-reviewed journal (the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports), and expect people to not only take it seriously – but adjust their lives based on it. These same people and institutions who nag about the lack of public trust in them by the public then go on to become such enormous sources of misinformation it would give Facebook and Twitter whiplash.

I remember the days when Trump took a lot of mockery and criticism for drawing over a hurricane’s paths with a sharpie.

How is this any better?

CNN Anchor: ‘Credibility Question’ Swirls Around CDC’s Ever-Evolving Mask Policy


Quote:The very liberal CNN network has been all in with Team Biden on COVID-19 from the beginning.

But one nightly anchor had some serious questions on Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reversed its stance and urged all people to once again wear masks, even those who have been vaccinated against the virus.

Host Erin Burnett sat down with Dr. Jonathan Reiner, CNN’s medical analyst. And she got laid it all perfectly.

“I understand what you’re saying, but I also take a step back here and I say OK, first they said — and science and information can change, right? But we all remember at the very beginning here, mask up even if you’re vaccinated because you could spread it. And then, yay, guess what, you can’t spread it. And now, oh my gosh, now you can maybe spread it. And they’re making the change to the masking guidance based on unpublished data,” Burnett said.

The data — which the CDC did not present when making its announcement, “shows the vaccinated and unvaccinated people infected by the Delta variant can have the same viral load,” she said. ” So, after changing it to ‘maybe you can spread it’ to ‘you definitely can’t, to ‘maybe you can but it’s really rare’ — they’re telling you now it’s really rare but you have the same viral load.”

Then Burnett lowered the boom.

“I mean, Dr. Reiner, that’s why it’s really confusing. And it does beg the question of, do they really know or do they know things they’re not sharing with us? I mean it’s a credibility question, isn’t it? We don’t even know what ‘rare’ means?”

“Completely,” Reiner said. “Let’s see the data. All right, let’s, let’s be transparent. Let’s explain to the public what the problem is and what the fix is, and I don’t get that vibe from CDC now. Well, I think you can tell the American public that delta is bad. And because delta is bad, we need everyone to … mask up, both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated,” the doctor said.

“The American people will listen to that. Instead, you know, this story of occasionally, maybe vaccinated people can, you know, can, can spread the virus so, it just doesn’t ring true to me. It doesn’t ring true.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reversed course on Tuesday, recommending that vaccinated people begin wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the Delta variant of the virus is surging. The CDC also recommended masks for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors at schools nationwide.

During a call with reporters Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tied the new guidance to the spread of Delta.

“We believe the vast majority of transmission is occurring in unvaccinated people and through unvaccinated people, but unlike the Alpha variant that we had back in May — where we didn’t believe that if you were vaccinated you could transmit further – this is different now, with the Delta variant, and we’re seeing now that it’s actually possible if you are a rare breakthrough infection that you can transmit further, which is the reason for the change,” she said.

President Joe Biden weighed in on the new CDC guidance. “The more we learn about this virus and the delta variation, the more we have to be worried and concerned. And there’s only one thing we know for sure — if those other 100 million people got vaccinated, we’d be in a very different world.”

In a statement after the CDC’s guidance, Biden said: “When I ran for President, I promised to be straight with you about COVID—good news or bad. And I promised to follow the science. That strategy has worked: in my first six months in office, we’ve given out over 300 million shots—and have 60% of adults fully vaccinated and nearly 70% started on vaccinations. Cases are down, and deaths are down dramatically. One estimate suggests that our rapid deployment of the vaccine has saved 100,000 American lives—perhaps more.”

“Today’s announcement by the CDC—that new research and concerns about the Delta variant leads CDC to recommend a return to masking in parts of the country—is another step on our journey to defeating this virus. I hope all Americans who live in the areas covered by the CDC guidance will follow it; I certainly will when I travel to these areas,” he said.

FDA Issues Recall for Defective COVID Tests Made by ‘World’s Largest Manufacturer’ of Rapid Tests


Quote:The Food & Drug Administration issued a class I recall for a defective COVID rapid test that had been the “benchmark” for testing in the United States. It continues an alarming trend of problems with COVID tests in the United States.

“The FDA has classified the recall of this test as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall,” the government agency said. “The FDA also has issued a warning letter to Innova Medical Group, Inc.”

Innova describes itself as “the world’s largest manufacturer of rapid antigen tests and leader in COVID-19 testing solutions globally.” The FDA states the reasons for the COVID test recall:

“Innova Medical Group is recalling its SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test. Labeling distributed with certain configurations of the test includes performance claims that did not accurately reflect the performance estimates observed during the clinical studies of the tests. The performance characteristics of the test have not been adequately established, presenting a risk of false results.”

False-negative results may lead to delayed diagnosis or inappropriate treatment of SARS-CoV-2, which may cause patient harm including serious illness and death. False-negative results can also lead to further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including when presumed negative patients are grouped into cohorts in health care, long-term care, and other facilities based on false test results.
False-positive results could lead to a delay in the correct diagnosis and the initiation of an appropriate treatment for the actual cause of patient illness, which could be another life-threatening disease that is not SARS-CoV-2. False-positive results could also lead to further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when presumed positive patients are grouped into cohorts based on false test results.
“On April 23, 2021, Innova Medical Group sent all affected device users an Urgent Medical Device Recall letter,” the FDA said. “The letter provided the following information”:

Do not use these tests to screen for or diagnose COVID-19.
Identify and remove all affected tests from inventory.
Either destroy the tests by placing them in the trash or return the tests using the FedEx return label that was included with the letter Innova sent to its customers.
Complete and return the form Innova sent to its customers, indicating the number of destroyed or returned tests.
The CDC in June issued an alert for testing laboratories to stop using the Innova SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test.

“Innova Medical Group is recalling its SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test. Labeling distributed with certain configurations of the test includes performance claims that did not accurately reflect the performance estimates observed during the clinical studies of the tests,” the CDC stated. “The performance characteristics of the test have not been adequately established, presenting a risk of false results.”

A number of COVID testing experts reacted to the recall of the Innova rapid tests.

“The Food and Drug Administration issued its STOP notice on Innova’s lateral flow antigen tests in USA on 10th June, by coincidence one day after a Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Working Group had issued its report on diagnostic tests which made 22 recommendations – 10 on study-design, six for regulators and six on transparency,” Professor Sheila Bird of the University of Cambridge remarked.

“The FDA explain that they have withdrawn the Innova test for four main reasons: (a) distribution of the test in the US without approval; (b) erroneous claims on product leaflets; © concerns about the reliability of the evidence; and (d) failure to implement appropriate quality assurance processes to ensure that only inspected and approved devices are distributed,” Professor Jon Deeks of the University of Birmingham remarked. “The FDA state that the decision is informed by inspection visits to the distribution sites in the US. Innova have responded stating that they have already or are fixing the issues which concerned the FDA and will reapply for approval.”

It is not the only concerning news on the COVID testing front. Last week, the CDC urged laboratories to switch over to a “multiplexed method” that “can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”

“Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods,” the CDC stated. “For a summary of the performance of FDA-authorized molecular methods with an FDA reference panel, visit this page.”

“In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test,” the agency continued. “CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season. Laboratories and testing sites should validate and verify their selected assay within their facility before beginning clinical testing.”

The CDC guidance raises questions about the current laboratory testing regime’s ability to quickly and accurately differentiate between COVID-19 and the seasonal flu. In April, Scientific American commented on reports there was “just no flu circulating.” It attempted to explain the anomaly in terms of lower ‘positivity rates.’

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“The U.S. saw about 700 deaths from influenza during the 2020–2021 season,” Scientific American said. “In comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there were approximately 22,000 U.S. deaths in the prior season and 34,000 deaths two seasons ago.”

But perhaps most disturbingly, the CDC has a history of getting it wrong on COVID testing. In November 2020, NPR reported that a CDC internal review knew early on in the pandemic that COVID tests had high failure rates, but they were released anyway.

“On Feb. 6, a scientist in a small infectious disease lab on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Atlanta was putting a coronavirus test kit through its final paces,” NPR reported. “The lab designed and built the diagnostic test in record time, and the little vials that contained necessary reagents to identify the virus were boxed up and ready to go. But NPR has learned the results of that final quality control test suggested something troubling — it said the kit could fail 33% of the time.”

Remarkably, the early COVID test was modeled on influenza tests.

“Lindstrom, who led the respiratory disease lab, had invented diagnostic tests in the past,” NPR reported. “Before he went to the infectious diseases lab, he was running a different CDC lab, one that focused on influenza.”

“When he was there, he had helped create the diagnostic tests that were used to identify H1N1 in patients, and there were no issues with the test,” the report continued. “The FDA quickly approved the kits and sent them to labs across the country. Within days, the same kits were dispatched around the world.”

“The effort was considered a triumph for the CDC, and Lindstrom was viewed internally as the guy who made it happen,” the report added.

“The influenza lab, however, had an infrastructure and systematic way of responding to flu outbreaks, and because of that Lindstrom and his team just had to do the science, one official said. The infrastructure was already there to help. COVID-19 was different,” NPR went on. “When Lindstrom first built the test at the infectious disease lab, for instance, he didn’t have any human sample of the virus, so it had to be manufactured.”

“What’s more, officials say, Lindstrom built the coronavirus test the same way he would have built one for influenza,” the report notes. “It was, after all, what he knew best. The problem was, the coronavirus had more in common with SARS or MERS — respiratory diseases that hit the Middle East and Asia in 2002 and 2012 — than something like H1N1.”

“The CDC declined to make Lindstrom or anyone else available for an interview and declined to discuss the unreleased internal review,” NPR added.
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in the 'sip, our guv finally figured it out....

unlike these blue state fagoos....

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The "unpolitical" (yeah right) CDC is paving the way for a do-over like the 2020 elections. You have to remember that 2022 is just around the corner.
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Talking about reversing course


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