Task force reports show dire reality despite Trump's positive messaging https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/coronavirus-task-force-state-reports/index.html As President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic and urging states to reopen the nation's businesses and schools, data from the White House coronavirus task force released Monday shows he was getting increasingly dire reports about the spread of the pandemic in July and August. The House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus on Monday published eight weeks' worth of state reports compiled by the White House task force. The task force releases these reports each week to governors' offices for their respective states, and has previously declined to make them publicly available or confirm the authenticity of any of the data reported. There had been some discussion on a call with governors earlier this month, audio of which was obtained by CNN, about making some of the data publicly accessible in real time, but that has yet to happen. "Rather than being straight with the American people and creating a national plan to fix the problem, the President and his enablers kept these alarming reports private while publicly downplaying the threat to millions of Americans," subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said in a statement. The most recent of the eight reports released by the subcommittee is dated August 9. Since then, the course of the pandemic has changed, improving in some places and getting worse in others. The 459-page August 9 report has a section for each state, which includes extensive data on the state's cases down to a county level, as well as detailed, private recommendations to state and local officials to slow the spread, including promoting social distancing and face coverings, implementing contact tracing, and closing bars and nightclubs in "red zone" states. The "red zone" indicates there are more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population and/or test positivity is above 10%, per the task force's definition. There were 20 states in the task force's "red zone" as of August 9. The "yellow zone" indicates between 10 and 100 new cases per 100,000 population and/or test positivity between 5 and 10%, per the task force's definition. There were 28 states plus the District of Columbia in the "yellow zone." Just two states, Maine and Vermont, were in the green zones for test positivity and cases. On the same day that report was released, Trump claimed that coronavirus cases were rising due to increased testing, which is disproven by the many states in the report with rising test positivity rates -- meaning the proportion of people who test positive compared to negative, which can signal a burgeoning outbreak. "Cases up because of BIG Testing! Much of our Country is doing very well. Open the Schools!" he tweeted, going on to advocate for the reopening of schools in press conferences that week. The more granular data in the report show how Trump has sought to spin good news and cherry-pick positive data. "If you look at some of the states that had a flare up recently, they're all doing very well. Florida is going down rapidly. I want to give a lot of credit to the governors. Florida is going down, and Arizona is going down, way down. They've done a fantastic job," Trump said during an August 12 briefing. It is true that Florida and Arizona had seen a decrease in new cases and test positivity that week. But both states were still experiencing significant spread and were in the "red zone" for cases and test positivity in the August 9 report. The report recommended measures in Florida such as "consider a statewide mask mandate for counties with 50 or more active cases," "ensure messaging to all citizens to limit social gatherings to 10 or fewer people even within families," and "expand testing capacity in public health labs... to reduce turnaround times." "Many locations are really in fantastic shape, some with very little, if any, problem. Large portions of the United States," Trump said at that August 12 briefing. Just one of the previous reports had been made public, the July 14 report, which was obtained by journalism nonprofit Center for Public Integrity. That report showed 18 states in the "red zone" and called for the rolling back of reopenings, including the closing of bars and gyms in many places. The White House is lambasting the subcommittee's decision to release the reports. "In the midst of an ongoing pandemic, some members of Congress have chosen to irresponsibly issue a partisan report completely for the purpose of falsely distorting the President's record to protect the health and safety of the American people and save millions of lives," deputy press secretary Judd Deere told CNN in a statement. "The Coronavirus Task Force has been providing tailored recommendations to individual states for months encouraging Governors and local health officials to act immediately while at the same time President Trump and the entire administration has reminded Americans to follow CDC recommendations and best practices to slow the spread as we work to reopen," Deere added.
This sweet and sour flu is really mysterious. Apparently tens of millions are infected with it while but a few are actually sick, and dying from it is still a statistical zero all these many months later.
7 months in and only 1 in 55 Americans has contracted a confirmed case. Yet we shut down the entire economy-----Make any sense to you?
FINALLY: The CDC Publishes COVID-19 Testing Guidance That Makes Sense https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/08/27/finally-the-cdc-publishes-covid-19-testing-guidance-that-makes-sense-n853342 On Monday, the CDC updated its testing guidelines to say that not everyone needs to get a test for COVID-19: You only need a test if you have symptoms or have had close contact with an infected individual. They have finally defined close contact to be within six feet for at least 15 minutes. When the CDC advised against retesting, it specifically stated that the PCR test can amplify RNA from a virus no longer capable of replicating for 90 days post-recovery. It would be typical to find this in recovered patients after their immune system has defeated COVID-19. It can also be found in individuals who have never been infected by the virus. A positive test has never indicated an active infection or the ability to transmit the disease to others in the absence of symptoms. It could simply mean an individual has reactive T cells that eliminate COVID-19 through an exquisite and healthy immune response. This process may still leave viral debris in their airway that a PCR test can detect.
New CDC report reveals 94% of COVID deaths weren’t just COVID; Also 90% testing positives are false positives! https://therightscoop.com/new-cdc-r...lso-90-testing-positives-are-false-positives/ Adding to this, over the weekend the NY Times reported that up to 90% of positive tests are actually false positives: Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus. Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But researchers say the solution is not to test less, or to skip testing people without symptoms, as recently suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead, new data underscore the need for more widespread use of rapid tests, even if they are less sensitive. This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.
Now you are just making shiat up. The New York Times did not say 90% of the positives were false positives. All you have to do is go read the linked New York Times article for any rational person to see this is bullshiat.
On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.
The pandemic, if there ever was one, has been over for months. If anybody remains unconvinced, please see the numbers below. This thing has been way over for a long long time.
Total scam. Keep everyone locked up to keep them "safe". Total bullshit, grade A. The good news is more and more people are waking up to the lies.