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Did Federal Officials Really Question W.H.O. Tests for Coronavirus?
Dr. Deborah Birx said she did not mean to suggest the widely used diagnostic tests generated frequent false-positive results.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/health/coronavirus-tests-who.amp.html
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By Donald G. McNeil Jr. at the NYTimes
March 17, 2020
At a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism for its failure to make coronavirus tests available to millions of nervous Americans, remarks by a federal health official on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the World Health Organizations diagnostic tests were wildly inaccurate.
In a somewhat rambling answer to a question related to W.H.O. tests, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response
coordinator, said: It doesnt help to put out a test where 50 percent or 47 percent were false positives. Imagine what that would mean to the American people. Imagine what that would mean to tell someone they were positive when they werent.
It was not clear where Dr. Birx got those figures, but obviously such an inaccurate test would be worthless. Late on Tuesday night, Dr. Birx confirmed that although she was responding to a question about the W.H.O. test, she was referring to a study of an early diagnostic test used in China.
The paper found that, in a specific subset of those tested in China asymptomatic contacts of known cases the tests wrongly found them to be positive 47 percent of the time.
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Another completely false narrative at a WH press conference.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)She looks at Trump as adoringly as Pence. At the same time she says Fauci was her mentor so maybe she's competent.. who knows.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)political and would project the Trump narrative of the day. I had high hopes she was a scientist. I don't know why i had high hopes. One should never have high hopes. Plus i'm allergic to gaslighting. I just feel icky. And i feel gloomy.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)If it's just another Trump lie we know she's been bought or has bought in.
murielm99
(30,745 posts)She keeps nodding at everything the orange annoyance says.
intrepidity
(7,307 posts)The first time I see someone do that, they are immediately on my list of untrustworthy.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Response to applegrove (Original post)
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Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)including the TEST RESULTS. which will be owned and controlled by Kushners and Trump Regime
I won't be getting any test there.
No matter how hard Googles software pointers try to take me there.
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)People assume the worst. China built a hospital in 10 days. We can't get a fucking test.