The only way to prove Covid is more contagious than the flu is to start treating the Flu the same as covid:
Stop doing Influenza cultures for Flu. Start PCR testing.
Crank up Ct to 45 when testing for Influenza.
Start repeatedly MASS testing asymptomatic healthy people for flu.
Start reporting “tested for Flu prior to death” and “died from Flu” as the SAME statistic.
Quarantine healthy asymptomatics who have zero symptoms, making them fatter, sicker, less active and more depressed. Force them to wear masks that trap germs and bacteria to their face.
Most labs use a multiassay right now that tests for covid and flu at the same time. PCR (rapid type) has generally always been used to test for flu at a cT of 37. Generally the higher the cT value the lower the viral load and less likely to spread and the lower the cT value with a positive the higher the viral load and ability to be infectious increases. I really don't know why this routine standard protocol was broken and the damn labs went along with it. The estimation that the CDC of like "40 to 65 million cases of the flu" is because 1. The flu is not a reportable infectious disease. 2. The ones who do report can state probable or active based on cT level. This has always been the protocol in labs that I have worked in at least in the late 90s. I went on to get an RN license.
Cts < 29 are strong positive reactions indicative of abundant target nucleic acid in the sample
Cts of 30-37 are positive reactions indicative of moderate amounts of target nucleic acid
Cts of 38-40 are weak reactions indicative of minimal amounts of target nucleic acid which could
represent an infection state or environmental contamination.
The only reason to state someone is definitely positive at such a high cT is to measure probable community spread but that doesn't mean that person is infected. In Arkansas, the labs run at 38 cT value and IF there is a positive that high it's called a probable, but is still included in the numbers. However, on the ADH site that is tracking cases, the active is separate from the probable.
Not all medical centers or hospitals are currently testing for both. For years, we’ve used the ELISA for a rapid influenza test, but usually followed up and confirmed it with a culture.
Btw, Your lab may be testing for regular flu, does not mean the centre is reporting it or the CDC is tracking it.
The only way to prove Covid is more contagious than the flu is to start treating the Flu the same as covid:
Stop doing Influenza cultures for Flu. Start PCR testing.
Crank up Ct to 45 when testing for Influenza.
Start repeatedly MASS testing asymptomatic healthy people for flu.
Start reporting “tested for Flu prior to death” and “died from Flu” as the SAME statistic.
Quarantine healthy asymptomatics who have zero symptoms, making them fatter, sicker, less active and more depressed. Force them to wear masks that trap germs and bacteria to their face.
Now you’ve got a Flu Global pandemic
Most labs use a multiassay right now that tests for covid and flu at the same time. PCR (rapid type) has generally always been used to test for flu at a cT of 37. Generally the higher the cT value the lower the viral load and less likely to spread and the lower the cT value with a positive the higher the viral load and ability to be infectious increases. I really don't know why this routine standard protocol was broken and the damn labs went along with it. The estimation that the CDC of like "40 to 65 million cases of the flu" is because 1. The flu is not a reportable infectious disease. 2. The ones who do report can state probable or active based on cT level. This has always been the protocol in labs that I have worked in at least in the late 90s. I went on to get an RN license.
Cts < 29 are strong positive reactions indicative of abundant target nucleic acid in the sample Cts of 30-37 are positive reactions indicative of moderate amounts of target nucleic acid Cts of 38-40 are weak reactions indicative of minimal amounts of target nucleic acid which could represent an infection state or environmental contamination.
The only reason to state someone is definitely positive at such a high cT is to measure probable community spread but that doesn't mean that person is infected. In Arkansas, the labs run at 38 cT value and IF there is a positive that high it's called a probable, but is still included in the numbers. However, on the ADH site that is tracking cases, the active is separate from the probable.
Not all medical centers or hospitals are currently testing for both. For years, we’ve used the ELISA for a rapid influenza test, but usually followed up and confirmed it with a culture.
Btw, Your lab may be testing for regular flu, does not mean the centre is reporting it or the CDC is tracking it.
https://www.oom2.com/t72561-in-unprecedented-move-cdc-stops-tracking-influenza-for-2020-21-flu-season
Influenza, or seven seasonal flu killed so hundreds of thousands of people every year.