I would argue that Trump and his team have saved millions of lives.
Especially with his actions of banking travel from China and then later Europe and Brazil. I found it a bit odd though that Britian was exempt in the beginning, considering it was pretty sure over though.
Compare that to the response of Democrats such as Cuomo who said people should still go out that it wasn't a big deal. And the vodka drinker Pelosi who said people should go visit Chinatown in San Fran Sicko.
During this time, Trump has had to deal with a very hostile and corrupt media that wanted to Blake every death on him, when he has been doing everything in his power to fight the WuFlu.
I believe in January he ordered flights to stop from China and soon after set up the task force, with no less than the VP to be in charge of it.
The numbers are bullshit.
Nothing made in China ever works
Correct that’s why they are very careful with their wording “COVID related deaths”. Aka the dude wrapped his car around a tree and died, but he tested positive for COVID.
Florida man killed in motorcycle accident marked as COVID death
Man with BAC of 0.55 dies from alcohol poisoning, marked as COVID death.
Many test sites in Florida reporting 100% COVID positive test rates.
600,000 military members falsely tested positive for COVID.
Or just deaths in general.
They certainly aren't as trust worthy as they should be given how much we have spent on this disease.
There are a lot of test makers trying to cash in, some of them make garbage testing kits. The good tests do not have a high false positive rate. The bad tests or one improperly done do have a high false negative test rate.
Agreed. Some of this is done for the politics, some for the extra money that comes with a positive Covid checkmark on the patient's chart.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-any-strain-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/5707781
Idk where you are getting your FP data, but since the pcr and serology tests have overlap with common cold strains of coronavirus, they are not specific for covid 19.
We've been running Covid PCR tests for over six months. We've used the earliest versions and been involved with trying out other versions. We never had a problem with false positives, but we did have some problems with false negatives due to low sensitivity. These were corrected by increasing the amount of culture medium and getting a larger sample (think probing deeper, swabbing around more and letting it stay in the nose longer). During the first couple of months, we still had lots of patients that came in with colds, were tested for flu and covid-19 and didn't test positive for Covid-19.
The link is garbage. The guy has zero idea of how PCR works, or of the accuracy. If he did, he would realize that errors tend to produce results that don't match what your looking for. They would be more likely to obscure positive covid results. I would surmise he hasn't done any testing of patients himself. Unlike the author, I have ordered and done Covid testing on countless (we stopped counting long ago after the patients got into the hundreds) patients. I've seen many of their Xrays, their CT scans and their blood work. I've seen how their kidneys, heart or lungs fail under covid in ways that do not match up with influenza, colds or ordinary pneumonia. I've had enough personal experience that I can usually tell you from a sick patient's presentation whether they have Covid or not. I've seen the test results after the initial evaluation and can clinically correlate positive and negative tests with what I see in my patients.
In other words, I have professional experience in evaluating the accuracy of these tests. The writer of your link does not. He would know better if he did. The writer of your link may as well be one of CNN's "sources say".
Take a look here for a more accurate explanation of problems with PCR testing.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169774
You are making an argument from authority, and the cases you are seeing are biased towards the severe presentations requiring hospitalization. In the context of severe symptoms, the PPV of pcr certainly goes up, but the main point of the article is that there is no gold standard from which to judge the accuracy of the test because the symptoms of covid overlap with many other respiratory illnesses, and it lacks pathognomonic features. Also, the pcr test amplifies rna from benign coronaviruses that share sequences with covid which would qualify as a FP. These viruses are ubiquitous in the environment. In addition many protocols amplify the sample so many times that the noise to signal ratio is inappropriately high as the creator of pcr has said. It also does nothing to tell you what a person's viral load is or even if there is active replication. How did a durian, goat, papaya, and bird test positive? Should fruits be socially distanced?