Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won’t try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in four say they don’t want to get it ever, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk poll released the same week that the number of COVID-19 cases surpassed 6 million. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/04/covid-19-two-thirds-us-wont-take-vaccine-right-away-poll-shows/5696982002/
Tag: Testing
New York Times reports “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.”
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. 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…
Fox News reports “CDC changes coronavirus testing guidance; asymptomatic people no longer require test”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says asymptomatic people no longer need to get tested for the novel coronavirus, a quiet change the federal agency recently made to its online guidelines regarding COVID-19. “You do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or state or local public health officials recommend…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – What have we learned?”
We have learned that people who are asymptomatic can, cannot, can, cannot, can, cannot, can… spread the virus. That the accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless. That false positive tests are impossible, common, impossible, common, impossible, common. That facemasks are useless, necessary, useless, necessary, useless… absolutely necessary. COVID –…
Chicago Tribune reports “How did the NFL have 77 false positive COVID-19 tests from the same lab?”
Several NFL teams had their weekends disrupted by false positive COVID-19 tests that the league traced to the same New Jersey BioReference laboratory. The Bears had nine positive tests from players and coaches that turned out to be false positives. And according to reports around the league, the Jets, Vikings, Steelers, Bills, Browns, Packers, Eagles, Lions, Patriots…
Birmingham Live reports “Good Hope Hospital’s Dr Ron Daniels says: ‘Don’t fear second wave – coronavirus is getting less angry'”
The intensive care consultant, who works at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust hospitals, says poorly patients are not increasing despite rise in infections Reflecting that range of views, Dr Ron Daniels – an intensive care consultant at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, who has also been based at Heartlands, said he believed the virus was “getting…
MSN reports “Concerns arise as some receive positive COVID-19 results but never got tested”
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Coronavirus continues to spread quickly across the state. Plus, now, on the Suncoast, although testing has been made more available, many say there are some problems in really getting a handle on how much the virus is in our community. It has nothing to do with being able to get tested,…
True Pundit reports “Florida Virus Numbers Error Wild: Negative Results Unreported, Orlando Lab Positivity Rate Inflated ~90%!”
A FOX 35 investigation released on Monday discovered an inflation of coronavirus cases by the Florida Department of Health. The Sunshine State’s health authorities misreported the number of persons testing positive for coronavirus in its aggregation and publication of test results from laboratories. FOX 35 anchor Charles Billi explained the impetus for the investigation. He…
Medical XPress reports “UK ‘overestimates’ coronavirus death toll: study”
Britain ordered an urgent review Friday into how coronavirus deaths are counted after a study suggested health authorities are overestimating the toll by counting people who died long after recovering. More than 45,000 deaths have been recorded in patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in Britain and many more died without being tested, making the…
FOX35 reports “What the record-shattering number of positive COVID-19 tests in Florida really means”
After record-shattering numbers of positive COVID-19 cases were recorded over the weekend in Florida, the governor defended them in a news conference Monday. “Two days ago, the State of Florida conducted 144,000 cases. Put that in perspective. When we were here in March, we were probably doing hundreds a day,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/what-the-record-shattering-number-of-positive-covid-19-tests-in-florida-really-means