I don’t believe any of these numbers.
Even if a few are off. That’s still a lot of deaths.
I know exactly TWO people who have had this flu. Neither of them died. One woman is in her 70’s, the younger man is in his 40’s.
And yet, when I need to go to town tomorrow to buy some gasoline to mow my lawn, I’m in ‘Lock Down Mask Mode’ to do so.
INSANITY!!
A tale of two tests: Vermont town left puzzled by positive, then negative, COVID-19 results By Hanna Krueger Globe Staff,Updated July 22, 2020, 7:18 p.m.
iebig would ultimately be one of 65 people who tested positive last week after completing the rapid antigen test offered at a private medical clinic in the heart of Manchester, Vt., a town of fewer than 5,000. News of an outbreak set off alarms in a state that to-date had fared well in the pandemic, registering the second-fewest cases in the country. Many local restaurants and retailers quickly shut down. The Saturday farmers market was canceled. State officials with little information scrambled to answer questions from reporters and the public as to how and where the outbreak began. But in Vermont, positive antigen tests — a relatively new way of detecting an active COVID infection — require confirmation by another test: a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test, the gold-standard used by the government, hospitals, and professional sports teams. Of the 65 people who’d received those positive antigen tests, 48 would ultimately test negative via PCR. Liebig was one of them. ..
Unlike PCR tests, which detect the presence of genetic material, antigen tests detect specific proteins on the surface of a virus ...
PCR tests, by comparison, are quite accurate but can take days to return results, rendering them obsolete since a person could have become infected in the interim period.
“We don’t have any independent validation on these antigen tests,” said Dr. Gigi Gronvall, a biosecurity expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “ ...
Rhode Island and Massachusetts include positive antigen tests in their daily case total, while Vermont and New Hampshire require confirmation via PCR. New York, where Liebig lives, is treating her as a presumptive positive case for COVID and mandating quarantine, despite her negative PCR test. Liebig is relatively certain she’s negative since she has shown no symptoms herself and no one around her has reported symptoms. - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/22/nation/tale-two-tests-vermont-city-left-puzzled-by-positive-then-negative-covid-19-results/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter
Me neither
7500 people die every day in the us
There’s no way to prove someone died of the virus. Or not