No wonder testing is just a fiasco in Florida.... the DeSantis administration has 800,000 to 1 million expired test kits. What a disaster and complete waste of money. Earlier today, DeSantis held a news conference where he admitted the state has 800,000 to a million expired COVID-19 tests. https://cbs12.com/news/local/commissioner-fried-responds-to-desantis-covid-19 DeSantis admits to finding 1 million stockpiled COVID-19 tests in warehouse https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2022/0...d-19-tests-are-being-stockpiled-by-the-state/ Is he just going to send the seniors the expired ones from the warehouse. DeSantis announces 1 million at-home COVID tests for seniors https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/n...nce-1-million-at-home-covid-tests-for-seniors
Ron DeSantis Out of Breath in Video Prompts COVID Speculation https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-florida-covid-press-conference-breath-1666230 Guess we found him...
DeSantis supporters January 6th insurrectionists... DeSantis slams Jan. 6 commemoration as way to ‘smear’ Trump supporters https://www.politico.com/states/flo...tion-as-way-to-smear-trump-supporters-1404316
DeSantis fails to "win". Florida only reports the second most cases of the pandemic. Florida reports 67,369 new COVID cases, 2nd-most of pandemic https://www.local10.com/news/florid...s-67369-new-covid-cases-2nd-most-of-pandemic/
Yeah... whatever... let's take a look at the information based on science from experts. Medical experts push back on Florida surgeon general’s new COVID-19 testing guidance https://www.local10.com/news/local/...rgeon-generals-new-covid-19-testing-guidance/ Trusted experts in the medical field are responding after Florida’s surgeon general said it’s unnecessary for people who don’t have symptoms to get tested for COVID-19. Doctors are saying that advice does not follow science. Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke in central Florida, saying he will prioritize at-home COVID tests the state has secured to long-term care facilities. “I don’t want somebody who is 75 to have to wait in line for an hour,” DeSantis said. The governor also doubled down on the testing guidance from his new surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo. Infectious disease expert Dr. Aileen Marty of Florida International University responded to the new recommendation by explaining why it is problematic at best. “I feel that I am watching Rome burn and Nero is fiddling,” she said. “That is incredibly irresponsible, we have to know where the virus is and people who are positive have to behave knowing that they can spread this to others and that they must not do that." “This talk of ‘natural immunity’ as if somehow or another putting the word ‘natural’ makes it better, that’s like standing in front of a hurricane and saying, ‘OK it’s natural’, let’s just let the wind take us.’ That is not good public health. Good public health is try and reduce the numbers of people who are infected, who are at risk, and reduce hospitalizations.” University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Dr. Nate Hafer said for those who choose to get tested, options include antigen tests and PCRs. “Both of these tests are very accurate,” he said. “That is the reason they are out in the market and authorized by the FDA. “If people have a close contact or have some reason to believe that they are exposed, I would think that getting a test was a good idea. The thing with this pandemic from the start is that people can be contagious before they have symptoms, that’s what makes this virus so difficult to deal with, so the faster we can identify people who are infected and contagious so that they can isolate themselves away from others and prevent the spread of the disease, the better. So if you have a reason to believe that is the case, go out and get a test.” Dr. Hafer said PCRs are a better option when you first face an exposure risk. “PCR tests are the most sensitive tests, because the PCR test is amplifying the genetic material it is usually sensitive enough to detect the virus and the infection early on,” he said. At-home antigen tests work well, he said, when people are showing symptoms. “The antigen test typically detects protein form the virus and there is no amplification step, so what is on that swab is what you got and what you have to try to detect with the test,” said Dr. Hafer. “Because the PCR test is so sensitive, it could be picking up small amounts of genetic material from the virus long after you are contagious, up to weeks after the infection, whereas the antigen test, once that infection is cleared and you are not really contagious anymore, it is going to be negative.”
Trusted expert Dr. Aileen Marty of Florida International University, eh? That doctor? That doctor you think is an expert pointed out a treatment you think is...well, insane? I just want to clarify. Let's watch the gymnastics on this.
So on March 16, 2020 the professor provided outlined the preliminary results of a in vitro study. What is the problem with this. Are you trying to claim she is hawking hydroxychloroquine and other fake cures like she is part of "America's Frontline Doctors"
No, just that - as usual - you're a hypocrite who goes with someone as an "expert" when they follow your Religion™ but people who don't are immediately apostates. Example #5823987 of how you are a fucking clown. She's not outlining a study. She's saying what should be done in dosage. Here's another where she says don't use masks! Or this one
As per the CDC guidance at the time -- she is telling people that medical equipment such N95 masks should be used by medical personal. Do you fail to remember there was a shortage. And to mention -- back in March of 2020 they were not even certain if Covid was transmitted in the air or via residing on surfaces. In the hydroxychloroquine study she is providing information on what the model in the study would recommend. Amazing that you don't understand that science and information evolves over time -- especially when facing a novel pandemic. At the beginning of the pandemic there was great hope that an existing drug like hydroxychloroquine would be found which would be an effective preventative and treatment. Unfortunately as mainstream studies were performed in scale on humans hydroxychloroquine was found to be useless for prevention or treatment of Covid. Same with Ivermectin later in the pandemic.