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This is infuriating. Many of us could have sat next to a dying relative. We could have gone to work. Earned a living. They wanted us shuttered. This is just more proof.
The study: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4168_article
From a special test they developed, the researchers found a remarkable 96 percent of people who were PCR-positive but without symptoms were not infectious.
Most people who don’t have symptoms, of course, are not infected. So the likelihood of someone who is not noticeably sick actually being infected and infectious was exceedingly rare. This means that much of the actions we were told—or compelled—to take, including an acceptance of all those closed or half-empty schools, had little to no benefit.
Worse still, the novel test at Stanford that showed a very low rate of infectious asymptomatic people who had tested positive was available as early as May 2020. Yet the CDC and other health authorities did nothing.
To be clear about the importance of all this: as early as May and June of 2020, a test existed that, if it had been rolled out in medical centers and regular labs nationwide, could have enabled people to know for certain whether they were infectious or not. Unlike the ambiguities of epidemiological studies or models, this was a biological test.
Enter the second groundbreaking piece to this story. Researchers at Stanford later looked at data from this test from July of 2020 through April 2022 and answered the question health authorities neglected to answer. And what they found does not match the narrative about a common threat of people walking around without symptoms infecting others. For the majority of the pandemic only 4% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive patients were shown to be infectious. (During the Omicron wave, the percentage peaked at about 25%.)
Dr. Ralph Tayyar, an infectious diseases fellow at Stanford, and an author on the second paper: "“The probability of a kid in class who is not sick actually being infectious is very low,” he said. Think about it this way: even if every single student in a school without symptoms was infected, 96 percent of them still weren’t capable of transmitting to others. Yet, of course, most people without symptoms are not infected. Moreover, just because 4 percent were technically capable of infecting others does not mean that in actuality they had sufficient amount of replicating virus to do so. We are talking about a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup."
Dr. Daniel Morgan, a physician and professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine: “the vast majority of positive PCR Covid tests in asymptomatic patients did not detect patients who were infectious.” He added, “During the pandemic we focused too much on testing, using tests with known issues, and too little on risk based approaches. We took a zero tolerance approach assuming that covid transmission would be impacted and that it was the only goal of public health policy.”
...Other studies also showed that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 was uncommon.
“In June 2020, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s [WHO] emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said that transmission from asymptomatic people was ‘very rare,’” a “conclusion based on a number of countries doing very detailed contact tracing,” Zweig wrote.
However, “the next day, after criticism from some health professionals, WHO officials walked back her statement, and Van Kerkhove said it was a ‘complex question,’” Zweig added.
And an editorial published in The BMJ in December 2020 stated that “Searching for people who are asymptomatic yet infectious is like searching for needles that appear and reappear transiently in haystacks.”
However, these findings were overshadowed by research claiming that a substantial percentage of COVID-19 infections were caused by asymptomatic individuals.
According to Zweig, such findings “supported the health authorities’ messaging … justified various community interventions” and were “covered everywhere.”
Researchers Had a Simple Test for Determining if an Asymptomatic Person Who Tested Positive for COVID Was Infectious — But CDC, Fauci Ignored It
Researchers at Stanford University who developed the test also determined that the vast majority of asymptomatic individuals who tested positive — 96% — did not transmit the virus.
...Now, a paper from researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospitals, raises an extraordinary prospect: transmission from asymptomatic people is far, far less common than we were led to believe.
The study: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4168_article
From a special test they developed, the researchers found a remarkable 96 percent of people who were PCR-positive but without symptoms were not infectious.
Most people who don’t have symptoms, of course, are not infected. So the likelihood of someone who is not noticeably sick actually being infected and infectious was exceedingly rare. This means that much of the actions we were told—or compelled—to take, including an acceptance of all those closed or half-empty schools, had little to no benefit.
Worse still, the novel test at Stanford that showed a very low rate of infectious asymptomatic people who had tested positive was available as early as May 2020. Yet the CDC and other health authorities did nothing.
To be clear about the importance of all this: as early as May and June of 2020, a test existed that, if it had been rolled out in medical centers and regular labs nationwide, could have enabled people to know for certain whether they were infectious or not. Unlike the ambiguities of epidemiological studies or models, this was a biological test.
Enter the second groundbreaking piece to this story. Researchers at Stanford later looked at data from this test from July of 2020 through April 2022 and answered the question health authorities neglected to answer. And what they found does not match the narrative about a common threat of people walking around without symptoms infecting others. For the majority of the pandemic only 4% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive patients were shown to be infectious. (During the Omicron wave, the percentage peaked at about 25%.)
Dr. Ralph Tayyar, an infectious diseases fellow at Stanford, and an author on the second paper: "“The probability of a kid in class who is not sick actually being infectious is very low,” he said. Think about it this way: even if every single student in a school without symptoms was infected, 96 percent of them still weren’t capable of transmitting to others. Yet, of course, most people without symptoms are not infected. Moreover, just because 4 percent were technically capable of infecting others does not mean that in actuality they had sufficient amount of replicating virus to do so. We are talking about a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup."
Dr. Daniel Morgan, a physician and professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine: “the vast majority of positive PCR Covid tests in asymptomatic patients did not detect patients who were infectious.” He added, “During the pandemic we focused too much on testing, using tests with known issues, and too little on risk based approaches. We took a zero tolerance approach assuming that covid transmission would be impacted and that it was the only goal of public health policy.”
...Other studies also showed that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 was uncommon.
“In June 2020, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s [WHO] emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said that transmission from asymptomatic people was ‘very rare,’” a “conclusion based on a number of countries doing very detailed contact tracing,” Zweig wrote.
However, “the next day, after criticism from some health professionals, WHO officials walked back her statement, and Van Kerkhove said it was a ‘complex question,’” Zweig added.
And an editorial published in The BMJ in December 2020 stated that “Searching for people who are asymptomatic yet infectious is like searching for needles that appear and reappear transiently in haystacks.”
However, these findings were overshadowed by research claiming that a substantial percentage of COVID-19 infections were caused by asymptomatic individuals.
According to Zweig, such findings “supported the health authorities’ messaging … justified various community interventions” and were “covered everywhere.”
The more time passes, the more we learn, the more pathetic we appear in how we addressed this flu.
COVID-19 is no longer classed as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, but scientists are still working hard to understand more about the virus and its impact – including how the coronavirus affects the body and leads to death.
A new analysis suggests that a high percentage of people who required help from a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection.
So while COVID-19 may have put these patients in the hospital, it was actually an infection brought on by the use of a mechanical ventilator that was more likely to be the cause of death when this infection didn't respond to treatment.
"Our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for, and aggressively treating secondary bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with severe pneumonia, including those with COVID-19," says Benjamin Singer, a pulmonologist at Northwestern University in Illinois.
The team looked at records for 585 people admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, also in Illinois. They all had severe pneumonia and/or respiratory failure, and 190 had COVID-19.
Using a machine learning approach to crunch through the data, the researchers grouped patients based on their condition and the amount of time they spent in intensive care.
The findings refute the idea that a cytokine storm following COVID-19 – an overwhelming inflammation response causing organ failure – was responsible for a significant number of deaths. There was no evidence of multi-organ failure in the patients studied.
Instead, COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and for longer periods. Cases where VAP didn't respond to treatment were significant in terms of the overall mortality rates in the study.
"Those who were cured of their secondary pneumonia were likely to live, while those whose pneumonia did not resolve were more likely to die," says Singer.
"Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that."
These results suggest that ICU outcomes could be improved if there were better strategies to diagnose and treat VAP episodes – something that the researchers say needs to be addressed in the future.
Most COVID-19 Deaths May Be The Result of a Completely Different Infection
COVID-19 is no longer classed as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, but scientists are still working hard to understand more about the virus and its impact – including how the coronavirus affects the body and leads to death.
A new analysis suggests that a high percentage of people who required help from a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection.
So while COVID-19 may have put these patients in the hospital, it was actually an infection brought on by the use of a mechanical ventilator that was more likely to be the cause of death when this infection didn't respond to treatment.
"Our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for, and aggressively treating secondary bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with severe pneumonia, including those with COVID-19," says Benjamin Singer, a pulmonologist at Northwestern University in Illinois.
The team looked at records for 585 people admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, also in Illinois. They all had severe pneumonia and/or respiratory failure, and 190 had COVID-19.
Using a machine learning approach to crunch through the data, the researchers grouped patients based on their condition and the amount of time they spent in intensive care.
The findings refute the idea that a cytokine storm following COVID-19 – an overwhelming inflammation response causing organ failure – was responsible for a significant number of deaths. There was no evidence of multi-organ failure in the patients studied.
Instead, COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and for longer periods. Cases where VAP didn't respond to treatment were significant in terms of the overall mortality rates in the study.
"Those who were cured of their secondary pneumonia were likely to live, while those whose pneumonia did not resolve were more likely to die," says Singer.
"Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that."
These results suggest that ICU outcomes could be improved if there were better strategies to diagnose and treat VAP episodes – something that the researchers say needs to be addressed in the future.
So today a federal Judge again forced an escalated timetable for the release of the data about the approval process for the Covid Vaccines… demanding information be released in less than 3 years. Initially the government argued that it should take 75 years… then tried to argue that it would take 23 years…
The judge rejected their arguments that because they werent staffed enough they should get more time and a separate argument about lack of bandwidth to release larger amounts of data…
It was a near comical attempt to run out the clock… indata already released, it has been revealed that ( as many here pointed out) the FDA changed approval timelines to meet mandate timelines states wanted, rather than the typical protocol for expedited approval of a novel vaccine process…
The judge rejected their arguments that because they werent staffed enough they should get more time and a separate argument about lack of bandwidth to release larger amounts of data…
It was a near comical attempt to run out the clock… indata already released, it has been revealed that ( as many here pointed out) the FDA changed approval timelines to meet mandate timelines states wanted, rather than the typical protocol for expedited approval of a novel vaccine process…
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Political, public health and corporate leadership all failed society.
The most important learning has to be the big answer for: why?
The most important learning has to be the big answer for: why?
Good. EVERY teacher should be fully reinstated though. And while they are at it, every human being who lost his or her job for making a choice should also be reinstated. With damages included.
In an overwhelming victory, the three Barrington (RI) teachers fired last year for refusing the Covid vaccine have settled all claims against the Barrington School Committee in their favor, their lawyer, Greg Piccirilli announced today.
Each of the three teachers—Brittany DiOrio, Stephanie Hines, and Kerri Thurber—had requested a religious exemption from taking the Barrington school district’s mandatory Covid vaccine at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. The district denied their requests, suspended them without pay, and ultimately fired them effective January 1st of 2022.
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Total Vindication: Full Reinstatement and Back Pay For Three Barrington (RI) Teachers Fired For Refusing Covid Vax
Teachers’ lawyer Greg Piccirilli: “The teachers have been made whole. It is as if they were never fired.”In an overwhelming victory, the three Barrington (RI) teachers fired last year for refusing the Covid vaccine have settled all claims against the Barrington School Committee in their favor, their lawyer, Greg Piccirilli announced today.
Each of the three teachers—Brittany DiOrio, Stephanie Hines, and Kerri Thurber—had requested a religious exemption from taking the Barrington school district’s mandatory Covid vaccine at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. The district denied their requests, suspended them without pay, and ultimately fired them effective January 1st of 2022.
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Speaking of masks, I still see this when I'm out in public, and while trying not to judge, I'm curious as hell, why they continue.
Are they currently symptomatic and trying to protect others, do they have an immune deficiency and are compromised, or has fear just permeated their thought process?
Surprisingly, to me at least, most that I see are 20-30 year old's, and not the geriatric crowd.
Are they currently symptomatic and trying to protect others, do they have an immune deficiency and are compromised, or has fear just permeated their thought process?
Surprisingly, to me at least, most that I see are 20-30 year old's, and not the geriatric crowd.
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We shouldn't be surprised. Anybody under 30 has been subjected to non-stop propaganda for their entire lives. They are mindless eunuchs.
Now. The nurses.
Brain ******* washed. Period.
I see them in the DC Metro area/suburban MD ALL the time. Saw several today when I took my mother and sister out for Mother's day. Younger people. Healthy people.
It's now to the point of stupidity. Virtue signaling? Sheep made so scared they will never stop?
Given the study I showed above that just 4% of the asymptomatic are contagious....I just laugh.
Hell all (I mean all) of our local Asian restaurants (sushi, chinese, Japanese) are still pickup/delivery only.
They did a massive number on us all.
Don't know what killed him, but....well...karma?
Clearly another coincidence.
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I thought the leading cause was Unexpectedly.
If you died unexpectedly, call the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe....
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The people who fought for the Rhode Island teachers and the New York policemen to get their jobs back, and who are fighting for the government to disclose legitimate vaccine adverse effects, and fought against the vax mandates for years?
Guess who.
Guess who.
I think it’s more self conscious now.
There are a few whom I work with that still wear mask. One thing they have in common are that they are introverts.
All this lockdown and mask stuff has really put a dent on people mentally.
And it’s true about the asian community. They still wear mask as well. Thankfully I got my grandpa out of that fearful mindset.
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I just don't care anymore. I live by the mantra "Zero ***** Given". Someone could walk into the grocers with a purple dong glued to his forehead and I would be like, Good for him!
The older I get the more I realize that people are just ******* stupid, self centered, attention ****** and I refuse to vindicate their emotional needs. **** 'em all.
Yesterday we took my mom and sister to eat for mother's day. At a restaurant my son serves tables at, a super cool latin-inspired rum bar place with the best food. We sat at a table in his section (kid made $575 in tips yesterday btw).
So he has tables inside and outside. I can see out the door to the outdoor section. I turn and see this dude sitting there....full beard, heavy guy. With bright blue hair, bright blue lipstick, bright blue fingernail polish. Not a well put together trans. I chuckle inside. Until I see my kid is waiting on their table.
When he returns to our table, I said "I appreciate your commitment to diversity and inclusion today." He's like "What?" I said your customer, you're treating them professionally. Then he got it. He chuckled, and said "I'm fine with it, it's just the full beard throwing me off. But hey, they represent a potential tip!" and off he went.
just like dad - always chasing the tips. though in his case, the tips are of a financial kind.
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They should also get damages
The corruption during the pandemic was historical. Another chapter....
Topline
The 20 largest non-profit hospitals in the country continued making massive profits while their cumulative net assets soared to $324.3 billion in 2021 from $200.6 billion in 2018. The year 2021 is the latest year available for cross-comparison purposes.
Those hospital systems received congressional Covid bailouts of $23 billion and only two providers partially paid their Covid bailout back.
Meanwhile, hospital executives racked up Wall Street-sized compensation packages which frequently exceeded $10 million per year. For example, the CEO at Ascension Healthcare based in St. Louis, Missouri made $13 million in 2021 – with three-year pay exceeding $22 million.
Furthermore, American life expectancy during this period sharply declined by a staggering 2.5 years from 2019 through 2022. While “comparable country averages” rebounded from a Covid-related drop in 2021, the U.S. continued declining in life expectancy.
Yet, the cost of health care is still astronomically high, as the average family paid $22,463 in health insurance premiums in 2022. That does not include out-of-pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles, which can be thousands more.
This has led to medical debt for about 100 million Americans.
In 2020, the Trump administration issued, and the Biden administration finalized (January 2021) a healthcare transparency rule – to spur market competition and inform patients.
Yet, two years after the rule took effect, an independent audit found that nearly three-quarters of hospitals in the country were not complying— flouting the mandate that prices be posted clearly and comprehensively.
GRAPHIC: CARES Act and ARPA provided big bailouts for wealthy non-profit hospitals during the Covid-pandemic.
Big Numbers
The 20 largest non-profit hospital systems saw their combined net assets soar 62 percent, or $124 billion, in the three years to 2021. You -- the U.S. taxpayer -- funded rocket ride. Examples:
Crucial Quote
Yet only four hospitals have been fined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid – the federal agency responsible for creating and enforcing health and safety guidelines. CMS fined two in June 2022 and two more in April 2023.
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Top U.S. “Non-Profit” Hospitals & CEOs Racked Up Huge Pandemic Profits
The top 20 hospitals pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid from taxpayers. They profited from the pandemic while ignoring price transparency rules. Patient costs soared while life expectancy plummeted.
Topline
The 20 largest non-profit hospitals in the country continued making massive profits while their cumulative net assets soared to $324.3 billion in 2021 from $200.6 billion in 2018. The year 2021 is the latest year available for cross-comparison purposes.
Those hospital systems received congressional Covid bailouts of $23 billion and only two providers partially paid their Covid bailout back.
Meanwhile, hospital executives racked up Wall Street-sized compensation packages which frequently exceeded $10 million per year. For example, the CEO at Ascension Healthcare based in St. Louis, Missouri made $13 million in 2021 – with three-year pay exceeding $22 million.
Furthermore, American life expectancy during this period sharply declined by a staggering 2.5 years from 2019 through 2022. While “comparable country averages” rebounded from a Covid-related drop in 2021, the U.S. continued declining in life expectancy.
Yet, the cost of health care is still astronomically high, as the average family paid $22,463 in health insurance premiums in 2022. That does not include out-of-pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles, which can be thousands more.
This has led to medical debt for about 100 million Americans.
In 2020, the Trump administration issued, and the Biden administration finalized (January 2021) a healthcare transparency rule – to spur market competition and inform patients.
Yet, two years after the rule took effect, an independent audit found that nearly three-quarters of hospitals in the country were not complying— flouting the mandate that prices be posted clearly and comprehensively.
GRAPHIC: CARES Act and ARPA provided big bailouts for wealthy non-profit hospitals during the Covid-pandemic.
Big Numbers
The 20 largest non-profit hospital systems saw their combined net assets soar 62 percent, or $124 billion, in the three years to 2021. You -- the U.S. taxpayer -- funded rocket ride. Examples:
- The world-famous Mayo Clinic: Astounding 92 percent jump to $17.7 billion in 2021 from $9.2 billion in 2018.
- Cleveland Clinic Health System: Up 60 percent to $15.6 billion in 2021.
- Intermountain Healthcare: Up 63 percent to $11.6 billion. Tellingly, Colorado Governor Jared Polis had earlier cited Colorado hospitals for ‘non-profit profiteering.’
- Northwestern Medicine: Up 43 percent to 11.9 billion.
- Indiana University Health System: Up 47 percent to $10.3 billion from $7 billion in 2018.
Crucial Quote
PRA, a nonprofit fighting for systemwide healthcare price transparency, reviewed the websites of 2,000 U.S. hospitals, focusing on the nations’ largest health systems. In February 2023, the group found that under 25-percent were in complete compliance. In August 2022, PRA found only 16-percent of hospitals were compliant.
Yet only four hospitals have been fined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid – the federal agency responsible for creating and enforcing health and safety guidelines. CMS fined two in June 2022 and two more in April 2023.
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