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08-21-2020, 10:51 AM | #43336 | |
In Search of a Life
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And we’ll be right back in the same spot as we are right now In january. |
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08-21-2020, 10:51 AM | #43337 | |
Life is changing..
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08-21-2020, 10:52 AM | #43338 |
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Entirely possible I mistook the letters MRSA with COVID on her paperwork and the directions to the one of many drive through COVID testing centers. I keep forgetting there are a bunch of drive through MRSA test sites throughout the county as well.
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08-21-2020, 10:57 AM | #43339 | |
"You like to drink?"
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Article mentions a Cepheid test which was approved in March. Since then, nada. And tests are taking much longer than 45 minutes to get back to people in most cases, so... |
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08-21-2020, 10:59 AM | #43340 | |
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Some of it is the fda approval and standards that have to be met to get a test thru |
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08-21-2020, 11:04 AM | #43341 | |
Please squeeze
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08-21-2020, 11:10 AM | #43342 | |
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08-21-2020, 11:38 AM | #43343 |
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Our use of the PCR test as the backbone or our testing due to the public health officials belief it is the most accurate reminds me of what I read about the Germans during WWII.
Germany, as all countries, during the War, was tasked with keeping up armaments to sustain the fight. Whereas the US war production focused on quantity while sacrificing some quality, the Germans could not go against their DNA. Instead Germans continued to focus on making bullets of the highest level of quality while producing a fraction of what the US was producing when the true need at the time was quantity. Seems like we are repeating the same mistake here. |
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08-21-2020, 11:50 AM | #43344 | |
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So at the end of the day it's safe to say the experts don't believe we need quick testing. |
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08-21-2020, 12:03 PM | #43345 |
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Some of them aren't reliable though and there is a couple that have been approved that sound like they are. Alot of this is on the FDA because they want all the tests to be as accurate as the PCR test because they don't want a bunch of false negatives. They definitely got burned by their stupid antibody decision early on which they have rolled back.
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08-21-2020, 12:11 PM | #43346 | |
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08-21-2020, 12:17 PM | #43347 |
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Wow. Mississippi has 28.5% positivity.
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08-21-2020, 12:29 PM | #43348 | |
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08-21-2020, 12:44 PM | #43349 | |
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08-21-2020, 12:48 PM | #43350 |
Time Keeps On Slipping
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