Posted on 06/29/2021 8:08:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In updated guidance on COVID-19 testing strategies, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it does not currently recommend widespread screening of people without symptoms, citing the cost of such a strategy and its ineffectiveness.
“Widespread testing of asymptomatic populations, including through self-testing, is not currently recommended, based on lack of evidence on impact and cost-effectiveness of such approaches and the concern that this approach risks diverting resources from higher priority testing indications,” the guidance stated.
However, “countries with the resources and desire to expand testing to the general public (regardless of symptoms) should demonstrate that they have the necessary public health infrastructure in place to respond to positive results and that resources are not being taken away from the testing of suspected cases, which is the top priority,” the WHO told The Epoch Times via email.
Testing should be directed “to where they are expected to have the biggest public health impact,” the WHO said, adding, “this means that all those who are suspected [as defined by the WHO] to have COVID-19 based on symptoms should be prioritized for testing,” irrespective of their vaccination status or disease history.
But in areas with ongoing community transmission, anyone who has come in contact with a probable or confirmed case should still quarantine for 14 days regardless if they are asymptomatic and have not been confirmed positive.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says in its most updated guidance that people who are asymptomatic and not vaccinated should be quarantined and tested if they were in close contact with a COVID-19 positive individual.
“Viral testing is recommended for unvaccinated individuals who are close contacts of persons with COVID-19,” the CDC said. “These individuals should be tested immediately after being identified, and if negative, tested again in 5-7 days after last exposure or immediately if symptoms develop during quarantine.”
Whereas, fully vaccinated individuals do not need to be quarantined, tested, “or be restricted from work” after being in close contact to individuals with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 if they do not have COVID-like symptoms, “as their risk of infection is low,” according to the CDC. However, they are recommended to self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days after exposure.
The CDC says testing is still recommended for “fully vaccinated residents and employees of correctional and detention facilities and homeless shelters.”
People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose of a messenger RNA vaccine or a single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“its ineffective”. Now they tell us.
No pun intended…WHO GIVES A SH—?!
Stop testing. They want the numbers to go down now.
The testing of asymptomatic people is ludicrous and one of the glaring red flags of this whole “pandemic”.
Let’s the numbers after they take out the (a) asymptomatics and (b) all PCR tests run at more than about 25 cycles
Ah! Another goal achieved....no need to test the asymptomatic.....at 1M spins, now.
Be honest:
Are you the least bit afraid of covid?
Were you ever?
Did you ever have reason to be?
Of course not - It’s bullshit.
If you fell for it, that’s OK.
Lots of people did.
But it’s time to STOP!!
It’s hurting people!
agreed.
testing should have stopped long ago.
They don’t want the vaccinated to be tested because testing the vaccinated will show that many of them are getting COVID-19 and that destroys the narrative.
They already dialed down the PCR cycles, which our FR resident cv19vax promoter Pharma shills defend as reasonable and scientific.
I suppose they’re also not interested in finding out if folks have already recovered from the virus after not knowing they had it
Don’t test the asymptotic and there are no longer any false positives.
Oh, look at that.
Vaccinations are causing the case rates to drop.
They’re admitting the tests are b.s. No symptoms, no virus. All those “positives” were false. And we shut down the world because of their b.s.
It’s about anti-bodies and herd immunity....and they don’t want to know the truth. This is what you call....rigging the numbers.
Since there was “No flu” this year, it sure makes sense. We’ve been Fauci’s lab rats for the last two years.
Saying case dropping due to vaccine, because they want to tell the world their so-called vaccine is effective.
How about this one?
Repeatedly late Rush Limbaugh said they're counting people dying from flu, C0VID just at least like common cold of some sort with 99% recoverability.
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