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CW4 Guy Butler
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CDC also had this on their site a couple weeks ago. The line that really stuck out to me in this Lab Alert is: "CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can **facilitate detection and differentiation** of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses." (Emphasis mine) What this tells me is the CDC has known since the beginning that the PCR tests were not accurate. Usable? Yes. Accurate. Nope.

And that prompts another question in my mind: If we could not readily tell the difference between Influenza and Covid, how do we tell the difference between Covid and Covid Delta Variant (and/or other variants)?

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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Valid questions, brother Keith.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
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I am neither supporting nor denying this article. But I was trying to check it on snopes, when I came across this gem...

"If a person presents with classic symptoms of COVID-19 and is in an area with an outbreak, doctors will often diagnose a person with the disease is spite of a negative test."


Gosh... maybe those folks who said COVID numbers were inflated might have been right after all. I am *not* saying that doctors were intentionally fluffing the numbers, or that politicians told them to do this, or even that a great many of those diagnosis-in-the-face-of-negative-test diagnoses were WRONG. But, in light of that information - if accurate - I am sure SOME of them were. Which..... inflated numbers.

Not trying to conspiracy theory anything here. Just pointing out that we are seeing more and more of those "crazy conspiracy theories" have some solid foundations. Maybe not to the extremes that the theorists go (I do not think Nancy Pelosi intentionally infected 1000,000 Californians to get the state to lockdown, or that Gretchen Whitmer secretly infected people at a pro-Trump rally). But.. inflated numbers. Lab Leak theory. Malfeasance at the state executive level in multiple states. Many of those "we must censor this misinformation" things are maybe not so misinformational.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/06/coronavirus-tests-are-pretty-accurate-but-far-from-perfect/
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Byron Oyler
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Physicians treat for suspected conditions all the time but that usually is with antibiotics. That said, it would not surprised me if it happened with COVID.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
SFC Casey O'Mally
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MAJ Byron Oyler - The question here isn't about treatment, sir, it is about reporting. If doctors are diagnosing (and thus reporting) patients despite a negative test, there are bound to be inflated reporting numbers. Especially as most of the "classic COVID symptoms" are the same as the flu.
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