Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center thought it had an outbreak of whooping cough. Nearly 1,000 staff members were given a PCR test. 142 of them came back positive. Later, more definitive testing was done. Not a single case of whooping cough was confirmed with the definitive test. Instead, it appears that the staff probably had ordinary respiratory…
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Stipulated Order Showing That NIH And HRSA Have Not Acted In Their Duties Regarding Vaccine Safety
In 1986 as part of the NCVIA, HHS was required to submit bi-annual reports detailing actions taken to ensure vaccine safety. This was not done, forcing 78 million USA children into vaccine programs with no safety provisions. Sources: See also, on this site: National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (USA)
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FDA issues Emergency Use Authorization for Labcorp COVID-19 RT-PCR Test
Rx Only No descriptive printed matter, advertising and promotional materials, relating to the use of your product may represent or suggest that this test is safe or effective for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of…
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CBS News caught staging “fake patients” in COVID-19 testing line.
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Positive cases added due to contact tracing.
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Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
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Portuguese appellate court is first to rule that PCR tests are too unreliable to be the basis of a lockdown order.
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Are you wondering where the flu went?
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Vienna Administrative Court: Corona Policy Without Basis, PCR Test Inappropriate
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The CDC changes case identification policies for the vaccinated
As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases… The following is the new standard for testing breakthrough cases: For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value ≤28 to CDC for…
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FDA issues Class I recall on Innova SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test
Innova’s kit includes a nasal swab and a lateral flow test strip, which in less than a half-hour produces colored lines to display a positive reading, similar to a pregnancy test. However, the FDA said that false-negative and false-positive results may lead to delayed diagnoses, inappropriate treatment and the further spread of the virus. Though…
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CDC issues lab alert regarding RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2
The CDC will end the Emergency Use Authorization for the RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 on December 31, 2021. This alert was issued to give labs time to find other tests to use. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays…
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EUA for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test expires
Sources: Related: See also, on this site: CDC issues lab alert regarding RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2