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CDC admits death toll is inflated! Of 161,392 deaths ONLY 6% / 9,683 ARE DIRECTLY CAUSED BY COVID.
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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 3424432" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Diagnosing COVID-19 infection: the danger of over-reliance on positive test results</strong></span></p><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3</a></p><p></p><p>False positives in reverse transcription PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2</p><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v1.full.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v1.full.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Huh, did you know we had different standards to prevent the reporting of false positives from PCR testing on previous virus outbreaks? China requires that you're sick or you've at least been exposed and a positive PCR test. Previously, the CDC had the same standard. That just isn't part of the acceptable narrative for this outbreak. That's weird. Isn't it?</p><p></p><p>From the first link:</p><p></p><p>Box 1: Measures minimizing false positive results in PCR-based tests Then (US CDC and WHO recommendations): SARS-CoV-1 " To decrease the possibility of a false-positive result, testing should be limited to patients with a high index of suspicion for having SARS-CoV disease...In addition, any positive specimen should be retested in a reference laboratory to confirm that the specimen is positive. To be confident that a positive PCR specimen indicates that the patient is infected with SARS-CoV, a second specimen should also be confirmed positive."</p><p></p><p>"[R]equirements for the laboratory diagnosis of SARS...almost always involves two or more different tests or the same assay on two or more occasions during the course of the illness or from different clinical sites...A single test result is insufficient for the definitive diagnosis of SARS-CoV infection."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 3424432, member: 7629"] [SIZE=6][B]Diagnosing COVID-19 infection: the danger of over-reliance on positive test results[/B][/SIZE] [URL]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3[/URL] False positives in reverse transcription PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 [URL]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v1.full.pdf[/URL] Huh, did you know we had different standards to prevent the reporting of false positives from PCR testing on previous virus outbreaks? China requires that you're sick or you've at least been exposed and a positive PCR test. Previously, the CDC had the same standard. That just isn't part of the acceptable narrative for this outbreak. That's weird. Isn't it? From the first link: Box 1: Measures minimizing false positive results in PCR-based tests Then (US CDC and WHO recommendations): SARS-CoV-1 " To decrease the possibility of a false-positive result, testing should be limited to patients with a high index of suspicion for having SARS-CoV disease...In addition, any positive specimen should be retested in a reference laboratory to confirm that the specimen is positive. To be confident that a positive PCR specimen indicates that the patient is infected with SARS-CoV, a second specimen should also be confirmed positive." "[R]equirements for the laboratory diagnosis of SARS...almost always involves two or more different tests or the same assay on two or more occasions during the course of the illness or from different clinical sites...A single test result is insufficient for the definitive diagnosis of SARS-CoV infection." [/QUOTE]
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