pipedreams Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 NY TIMES: Up to 90% Who’ve Tested COVID-Positive Wrongly Diagnosed! TRUTH: A Whole Lot Worse!! "In the previous entry, we learned about The New York Times’ shocking report that the standard PCR tests for COVID-19 everyone’s been rushing out to get are woefully unreliable. The Times looked at three sets of PCR testing data from Massachusetts, New York, and Nevada and discovered that, because of faulty procedures used at every single testing site in the country, “up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus” at all. The experts they talked to were astonished that such cases are even getting classified as infections. Yet, for some reason, the Times ran a weak-sauce headline completely downplaying their scandalous discovery: Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be." https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/09/03/ny-times-up-to-90-whove-tested-covid-positive-wrongly-diagnosed-truth-a-whole-lot-worse-pt-2/ "The FDA says that one test in use has a false positive rate of 3%. That means that testing a million people a day with it would still result in 30,000 positive diagnoses being reported each day even if the real number of new infections dropped all the way down to zero! If everyone in America were tested daily as some have proposed, even a .5% false-positive rate would result in over a million and a half new cases being reported daily in the absence of any actual new infections." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Numbers carry truth. When you can't trust the numbers, there is no truth! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPTim Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 There is no diagnostic test that has a specificity and a sensitivity of 100%. It doesn’t exist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 On 9/4/2020 at 3:10 AM, NPTim said: There is no diagnostic test that has a specificity and a sensitivity of 100%. It doesn’t exist. True. A false positive of 3% is about as good as your going to get, but when your testing a million people a day that's 30k false positives. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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