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Or re-classified it.
This time next month, virus.
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BBC Four - Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, 2021, The Invisible Enemy
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam explores viruses, the immune system and modern-day testing.
This year's series is well worth watching. Not all viruses are the same.
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There is barely any flu around atm. Hospital admissions for flu related illness are around 0.17 patients per 100,000 of the population. Covid is at around 7.06 per 100,000.
CDC have put a statement out saying the pcr test can’t distinguish between c19 and the flu they are starting to pull back from lots of their claims now about the virus ,vaccine and therapeutics which could have been used to treat cases the fraud is unravelling
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Really, where is this CDC statement? I would be very surprised since the pcr test for covid is different to one you would use for flu. The US have been using a multiplex test which can id both at the same time, something to do with that?
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Social media posts claimed the CDC was revoking its emergency use authorization request for its covid test because it couldn’t differentiate between the covid virus and flu viruses. While the CDC is withdrawing its EUA request for the 2019-nCoV RT-PCR test, it is not because the test is faulty.
Rather, it’s because the agency is concerned that, with flu season approaching, patients with respiratory illness symptoms should be screened for both the flu and covid. The patients shouldn’t be tested for covid alone, because flu cases might be missed.
The statements made in these Facebook posts are not accurate. We rate this claim False.
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In other words antivaxxer bullsh!t
Put up the cdc report that you refer to please.
Flu is still being tested for…someone else put up some figures somewhere. The incidence of flu is much reduced this year due to lots of factors but it is still about.
I don’t have the cdc post to hand as was reading about it a while back but your fact checker above proves the point that is being discussed that a separate test is needed , the most interesting part of this for me is the way that nothing can be taken as granted now on our MSM their can’t be many people in this discussion who wouldn’t admit we have been lied to about c19 and the points above regards the virus , vaccine , hospitalisations , positive tests
Should be easy to find if you do a search? You should be able to recall where you read it, or if it is published by CDC it would show up?
The point made is that there should be two tests made, for covid and Flu. You can’t argue that this reduces any ambiguity and is beneficial….not that the test is flawed.
In regards the rest of your post, I would refer you to the ONS and PHE figures but take the time to read and understand how they have reached the figures and the protocols that have been used to support the methodology. I do agree there is a lot of misinformation, usually from people who don’t agree that there is a serious global covid pandemic….
Social media posts claimed the CDC was revoking its emergency use authorization request for its covid test because it couldn’t differentiate between the covid virus and flu viruses. While the CDC is withdrawing its EUA request for the 2019-nCoV RT-PCR test, it is not because the test is faulty.
Rather, it’s because the agency is concerned that, with flu season approaching, patients with respiratory illness symptoms should be screened for both the flu and covid. The patients shouldn’t be tested for covid alone, because flu cases might be missed.
Your point here is the answer to what you ask for , the cdc are to use 2 tests as in their words being tested for covid alone will miss flu cases should this not have been done all along
Rather, it’s because the agency is concerned that, with flu season approaching, patients with respiratory illness symptoms should be screened for both the flu and covid. The patients shouldn’t be tested for covid alone, because flu cases might be missed.
Your point here is the answer to what you ask for , the cdc are to use 2 tests as in their words being tested for covid alone will miss flu cases should this not have been done all along
To help you out I did a quick search of the CDC website. There is no report as you have stated.
if you read the above, it states quite clearly that it is to remove the idea that a covid test can pick up a flu virus…they are two totally different things. So in effect what you suggest is the reason for the withdrawal is exactly opposite of why it is being done…..social media ehhh.
I would suggest this is being done now because of the pressure being brought from many directions
I went to my grandson`s Christmas spectacular put on by his drama school. Entry was with a covid pass and there were no problems. Some on here would not have set foot inside the theatre. Very sad for all concerned.
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Not one person apparently has died of flu in either 2020 or 2021...............
Work it out!!
No..,they are raw data but you have to read and understand how that data is reached and the parameters that the data is restricted to. The conclusions that are usually tagged on give a very good insight.
The modelling shows what may happen if certain things are well…”modelled”…like no covid vaccine roll out, or very low up take…or a more transmissible virus….
Its Hogmanay, I have better things to do. I wish you and everyone else a Happy New Year, let’s hope next year regains some normality whatever our individual thoughts on covid.
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