CDC admits death toll is inflated! Of 161,392 deaths ONLY 6% / 9,683 ARE DIRECTLY CAUSED BY COVID.

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From The CDC's Own Site: "In Pooled Analysis, We Found No Significant Reduction In Influenza Transmission With The Use Of Face Masks" Pls Share This With All The Karen's You Encounter (twitter.com)
 

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Covid produces a very specific form of pneumonia

folks that's followed C19 early on when C19 was first pandemic in China ... early dna/rna tests were expensive with unreliable results. Chest ground glass imaging quickly gain favor as low cost, quick and most reliable way to diagnose SARS COV-2. the term COVID-19 was originally used to label patients who were diagnosed with SARS COV-2 via ground glass images of lungs.

Review of the Chest CT Differential Diagnosis of Ground-Glass Opacities in the COVID Era
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020202504

pdf https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.2020202504

Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a recently emerged lower respiratory tract illness, has quickly become a pandemic. The purpose of this review is to discuss and differentiate COVID-19 typical imaging findings from other diseases, which can appear similar in the first instance. The typical CT findings of COVID-19 are bilateral and peripheral predominant ground glass opacities. As per the Fleischner Society consensus statement, CT is appropriate in certain scenarios, including patients who are at risk for and/or develop clinical worsening. The probability, that CT findings represent COVID-19, however, depends largely on the pre-test probability of infection, which is in turn defined by community prevalence of infection. When the community prevalence of COVID-19 is low, a large gap exists between positive predictive values of chest CT vs. RT-PCR. This implies that with usage of Chest CT there are a large number of false positive results. Imaging differentiation is important, for management and isolation purposes, and for appropriate disposition of CT false positive patients. We will discuss differential pathology with close imaging resemblance to typical CT imaging features of COVID-19, and, highlight CT features that may help in differentiation from other conditions.


Learning Objectives
After reading the article and taking the test, the reader will be able to:

  • ■ Identify the multivariate context of appropriate use of imaging in COVID-19 pneumonia,

  • ■ Specify the limitations of imaging in the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia,

  • ■ Describe the findings and differentiating features of other lung conditions that can be, frequently mistaken for COVID-19 pneumonia
 

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