CDC Suddenly Concerned About Covid 'False Positive' Tests?

[Brian4Liberty]

CDC Suddenly Concerned About Covid 'False Positive' Tests?

The CDC has issued new guidelines for measuring "breakthrough" Covid cases (a vaccinated person contracting the virus), recommending that the PCR test cycles be dialed down to below 28 to avoid false positives. False positives could undermine support for the vaccine. This move makes sense...but what about an entire year of testing the general population with a cycle of 40 or above? Are some false positives more equal than others?

[Occam's Banana]

And those aren't the only shenanigans going on:

https://twitter.com/DJcalligraphy/st...11763884003328

[Firestarter]

According to the following scientific-looking paper, the maximum reasonably reliable PCR treshold (Ct) is 30 cycles. Since the pandemic was started in March 2020, worldwide an amplification threshold of 35 or higher for the PCR COVID-19 test has routinely been applied, following the January 2020 recommendations of the WHO.

Above 35 PCR cycles, over 97% are false positives.


Pieter Borger, et al. - External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws... (2020): https://web.archive.org/web/20210411...ew.com/report/

[XNavyNuke]

I have close family members that work in emergency rooms. While this is only anecdotal, at two facilities over the past week, they've seen more fully vaccinated pop positive that unvaccinated. This may be due in part to our high vaccination rate in our deep blue state. For data purposes, it's not a hospitalization unless they are admitted through the ER. Those who walk in but return home won't be counted under the new guidance. Admission = hospitalization.

Fortune: The CDC is limiting reviews of reported breakthrough COVID infections to severe cases
https://fortune.com/2021/05/10/can-y...cases-tracing/

XNN

[Occam's Banana]

Now they're suddenly concerned with the distinction between dying "of" COVID and merely dying "with" it:

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/s...19639449649154

[Brian4Liberty]

Now they're suddenly concerned with the distinction between dying "of" COVID and merely dying "with" it:

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/s...19639449649154

Yep. They have no shame. And if you don't believe their constantly changing guidelines, advisories, recommendations, hypothesis's, “standards”, metrics and statistics, then you are a science denier.

They started with this new angle several days ago:

Saw a report on the local network news. They talked about COVID breakthrough cases and limiting counts, then they added that even if someone dies from a COVID breakthrough infection, it's probably because they had some other issues.

Quite a change from when even some motorcycle accidents were counted as COVID deaths.

[Aussie]

Covid Cases Australia as of the 23rd of May. Not bragging... Lol

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