On December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the use of the PCR test for COVID testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.
Via the CDC website:
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. 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.
Supply chains of PCR test chemicals have been stretched thin for over a year, creating a backlog of both scheduled tests and getting test results back in a timely fashion. I'd guess this fact has as much to do with changing tests as getting false positives for Covid out of the presence of influenza.
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ReplyDeleteSomehow I don't think CDC is going to be fixing this problem any time soon:
ReplyDeleteWhile the omicron variant has plagued the Biden administration with chaos, the CDC has revised their estimates of exactly how many coronavirus infections are due to the variant.
The CDC guessed the omicron variant accounted for 73 percent of all cases during the week ending December 18. On Tuesday, the number for that week was reduced to 22.5 percent, a massive reduction from 73 percent two weeks ago.
The CDC surmised 59 percent of all infections during the week ending December 25 were due to omicron.
CDC representative Jasmine Reed told Politico the discrepancy was due to a miscalculation of the omicron transmission rate.
“There was a wide predictive interval posted in last week’s chart, in part because of the speed at which Omicron was increasing,” Reed explained. “We had more data come in from that timeframe and there was a reduced proportion of Omicron.”
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb commented on the CDC’s inaccuracy on Tuesday and suggested many of the hospitalizations previously attributed to omicron could be a result of the delta variant.
“Setting aside the question of how the initial estimate was so inaccurate, if CDC’s new estimate of Omicron prevalence is precise then it suggests that a good portion of the current hospitalizations we’re seeing from COVID may still be driven by Delta infections,” Gottlieb said.
lol! "Precise"!
If you get Covid-19 really fast after you're vaccinated, it's Omicron. If you get Covid-19 after masking and social distancing, it's Delta.
ReplyDeleteIf you get Covid-19 and it kills you in the same day, it's Omega.
...sounds like an Andromeda Strain. ;)
ReplyDeleteMichael Chricton is one of my favorite writers. It's a tragedy that he didn't live long enough to slap Covid scientists around the way he went after environmental whackos.
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ReplyDeleteTo the post title. Not what Beamish wrote about how it's "wacko" to not want to poison the environment.
DeleteI'm sure if you make global warming illegal it will all go away.
DeleteBig Coal told Joe Manchin no.
ReplyDeleteJoe Manchin IS Big Coal. He's the founder of Enersystems, Inc., a coal brokerage business...
ReplyDeleteSounds like some Greenie needs to drop a $3b solar grant on Enersystems to get him to change his stance on BBB.
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