re: CDC moving the covid goalposts again

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Can somebody paraphrase this for those of us who don’t speak Klingon.

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Pre vaccine/ during Trump:

Simplified:
PCR testing used inappropriately to test for covid. The testing uses cycles. The more cycles, the smaller viral particles detected.

True positives should test positive with a smaller number of cycles. As cycles increase, more false positives become included (no clinical infection, but told they had covid). Statistical issues with sensitivity/specificity

CDC had the Ct set at level that allowed many patients to be “ruled in”
Inflated numbers

Biden/ vaccine :

CDC changes the Cycles to a lower level, effectively decreasing the number of patients labeled as “cases”. Literally just redefine reality

Automatically cases drop

Now they are further limiting how they define cases (further driving cases down and limiting the numbers of post vaccine breakthrough infection that will show up in future statistical analysis)


Lies, damn lies...