Virginia Admits to Counting Same Person Three Times if They Received Three Different Tests May 6, 2020 by IWB Dinesh D’Souza @DineshDSouza More fakery with #Coronavirus data: If the same person is tested three times and comes out positive, Virginia counts it as three separate cases. Another way to pad the numbers! Covid the magic multiplying virus. Virginia – if they tested the same person 3 times, and they died of Covid, 3 deaths. RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Governor Ralph Northam’s response team is explaining why the commonwealth has lagged in testing when compared to other states. The state saw a historic increase in testing numbers Friday, jumping 15% in the last 24 hours, but a change in the methodology is behind the spike. “You need to know the exact number of tests not the number of people who had tests,” said Dr. Daniel Carey, Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources. During a COVID-19 briefing, The Virginia Department of Health announced it will now count the number of positive virus tests instead of the number of people who test positive. That means if one person is tested three-times and all three tests come back positive, it counts as three instead of how the numbers were being counted before, which would have only been one because it was a single patient. “We realized for Virginia that that change in methodology made a clear sense because we want to make sure that other number that we’re reporting since so many folks are focusing on that as we move into the phases so as one of the important indicators,” said Dr. Carey. Other states, including North Carolina, have been reporting testing numbers that way for quite some time.
Tanzania Secretly Test Fruit — Lab Says It’s Positive For COVID May 6, 2020 by IWB COVID-19: Pawpaw and goat test positive for virus – President Magufuli According to President Magufuli, people who tested positive for the virus may not be sick. He cast doubt on the credibility of laboratory equipment and technicians. President John Magufuli of Tanzania has stated that a pawpaw, a goat and a quail tested positive for coronavirus in the country. He said this was after he secretly had a variety of animals, fruits and vehicle oil tested at the national laboratory. www.msn.com/en-za/news/africa/covid-19-pawpaw-and-goat-test-positive-for-virus-president-magufuli/ar-BB13AJWO?li=BBqfP3n President of Tanzania John Magufuli has outsmarted everybody. He allowed coronavirus testing kits to be imported into his country. He then instructed that they be checked by Tanzanian security officials. They tested non-human samples, including a goat and a pawpaw (fruit). The test were given human names and ages as they were sent off for results. They tested positive. A fruit. A goat. President Magufuli said, “Something is happening.” cdn.qmap.pub/images/1d35611beae1f56be1cd21fcf05248886c124198554e35d8b61f47310c21c47a.jpg Tanzania suspends laboratory head after president questions coronavirus tests DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania has suspended the head of its national health laboratory in charge of testing for the coronavirus and ordered an investigation, a day after President John Magufuli questioned the tests’ accuracy. Magufuli said on Sunday the imported test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw — among several non-human samples submitted for testing, with technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins. www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295
What a joke. And we're expected to put faith in these numbers. One thing though. In your link you stated the following sentence: "Covid the magic multiplying virus. Virginia – if they tested the same person 3 times, and they died of Covid, 3 deaths." But nowhere in the article that I could see did it say anything about counting three deaths in such a scenario. Where did you come up with that?
This is more Dinesh D'Souza crap. Up to now there has been an extreme shortage of tests for live virus every where in the U.S., except in the White House of course. The problem is that most people who should be tested can't get a test. There is no problem of people being tested 3 times positive. It's a hypothetical. In fact it is claimed by some that in heavily impacted parts of the country people have been dying at home with symptoms of covid viral pneumonia that never get tested even once. D'Souza is the convicted felon (felony campaign contribution violations) Trump pardoned. Years ago I attended a debate between D'Souza and Chris Hitchens. D'Souza proved himself to be a Jackass then, and apparently he's still one. So I suppose there is a sort of symmetry in one Jackass pardoning another.
These are the same people who expect us to trust how they count votes. Let's see, you like Biden, go vote. Are you sure you like Biden, go vote again. Okay, this time for real, vote Biden. Three votes for Biden. Next person.
Seeing that there is an extreme shortage of tests I don't see how anyone is getting three tests --- they are lucky to get one. This story smells like B.S. from the practical perspective. It may be that Virginia's current system counts tests rather than people --- but it is highly unlikely at this point that anyone had more than one test.