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“Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it,” the Post reported Saturday, citing its anonymous sources.
Birx was reportedly so frustrated that she allegedly blurted out, “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust.”
Surgical and cotton masks are both ineffective when it comes to blocking droplets of the virus SARS–CoV-2 that may be generated when somebody coughs, according to investigators with the Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers contradictory guidelines when it comes to the use of surgical masks and that’s putting healthcare workers at risk, according to some worker advocates and experts.
Jonathan Rosen, a health and safety expert who advises unions, states and the federal government, tells KHN: “There’s no doubt in my mind that that’s one of the reasons that so many health care workers are getting sick and many are dying.”
"In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as 'probable' or 'presumed.'"
...the CDC's death certificate manual tells physicians to focus on "precision and specificity," but the coronavirus death certification guidance runs completely counter to that axiom.
...under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.
"I think we underestimated, very early on, the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we're really beginning to understand there are people that get infected -- that those symptoms are so low-grade that they don't even know that they're infected," Birx added. "And we're beginning to see that with the New York studies of their zero-antibody studies."
If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.
Iceland’s first case was reported on Feb. 28, weeks behind the U.S. It’s plausible that the proportion of the U.S. population that has been infected is double, triple or even 10 times as high as the estimates from Iceland. That also implies a dramatically lower fatality rate.
...policy makers will need to focus on reducing risks for older adults and people with underlying medical conditions.
A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and physical health. We should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the empirical basis of the current lockdowns.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: visitedbythem
All the inconsistencies and problems with the CDC are on Trump, from insisting on creating an American Covid 19 test, instead of using the W.H.O's test, to rejecting masks and then finding out we were having a PPE shortage to insisting that everyone where masks. It all reflects Trump's flip flopping on his own response on how to handle the pandemic...listen to scientists or pretend it doesn't exist and "let it ride" until we achieve herd immunity.
President Donald Trump threatened to fire Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after her blunt warnings about the severity of COVID-19 caused the stock market to plunge in February, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
originally posted by: shawmanfromny
Wow, this is a surprise. Many on the Right think Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci are CDC/WHO puppets, who are working with the deep state to cause an economic collapse and discredit President Donald Trump.
Yesterday, it was reported that Dr. Birx "suspects the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are unintentionally inflating coronavirus case counts and death rates."
“Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it,” the Post reported Saturday, citing its anonymous sources.
Birx was reportedly so frustrated that she allegedly blurted out, “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust.”
www.bizpacreview.com...
Is Dr. Birx, who is the response coordinator on President Trump's coronavirus task force, starting to see the light? Or is she trying to cover her butt for initially supporting the CDC's questionable statisitics and claims?
After all, it wouldn't be the first time the CDC has been less than honest. Back in late March, a former Health and Human Services (HHS) official alleged that the delays in testing occurred because leaders at the Centers for Disease Control “lied” to the president, and to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, about the center’s ability to produce the kits.
How about the CDC's flip flopping on masks? Back in late February, health officials, including the CDC and the World Health Organization, recommended against people wearing face masks out in public. Remember this tweet from the Surgeon General in late February?
However, there were articles back in late March, that stated the Covid-19 fatality rate could be too high by orders of magnitude.
An article from late March, written by two professors of medicine at Stanford, Dr. Bendavid and Dr. Bhattacharya:
If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.
Iceland’s first case was reported on Feb. 28, weeks behind the U.S. It’s plausible that the proportion of the U.S. population that has been infected is double, triple or even 10 times as high as the estimates from Iceland. That also implies a dramatically lower fatality rate.
...policy makers will need to focus on reducing risks for older adults and people with underlying medical conditions.
A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and physical health. We should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the empirical basis of the current lockdowns.
archive.fo...-2481.0-2481.224
Maybe Trump should've hired those Stanford professors as part of his coronavirus team. They knew back in late March what Dr. Birx and the rest of the "experts" are just now starting to grasp.