The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/
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Covid-19 Private Self-testing – “How to End the Lockdown In Two Weeks”
Dr. James Lyons-Weiler writes: “in-home, private antibody testing can end the lock-down NOW. People who are IgM+ should self-isolate, watch their symptoms, and when they recover, get back to work.” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-end-lockdown-two-weeks-james-lyons-weiler/
CNN reports “Contamination at CDC lab was likely cause of critical early delays in rolling out coronavirus testing”
Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials have told CNN, a problem that stemmed in part from the CDC not adhering to its own protocols, according to a US Food and Drug Administration…
Stanford research reports “Covid-19 much more prevalent than previously thought”
The population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases. Population prevalence estimatescan now be used to calibrate epidemic and mortality projections. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf