I have found no coverage by FakeNewsMSM!
Yahoo Canada had a google result with summary showing “false positives” quote, but it was a different article when you open it, with no reference to Dr. Jaffe. even the link on CTV tweet to a CTV article has nothing to do with Jaffe & “false positives”.
a few alternative websites are carrying it:
31 Jul: The Scoop US: WATCH: Canadian Medical Official Warns Against Mass COVID-19 Testing, “It Will Not Achieve Anything Other Than Take Resources Away” (VIDEO)
by Joe Visconti
Canadian associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe warned against mass COVID-19 testing so that resources can be reallocated to test and treat only suspected cases.
Dr. Yaffe opened with, “A lot of people think that testing is going to really solve the whole problem, and it isn’t. It’s one component of a response. If you test somebody today, you only know if they’re infected today. And in fact, if you’re testing in a population that doesn’t have very much COVID, you’ll get false positives almost half the time. That is, the person actually doesn’t have COVID. They have something else. They may have nothing.”...
VIDEO: 3m59s
https://thescoop.us/watch-canadian-medical-official-warns-against-mass-covid-19-testing-it-will-not-achieve-anything-other-than-take-resources-away-video/
results were even worse on Bing and DuckDuckGo.
the tweet is dated 31 Jul 2020, so Jaffe’s statement should be current.
Tweet: CTV News, Ontario, Canada
Ontario Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe says mandatory COVID-19 testing for teachers “will just complicate the picture.” Read more: CTV LINK
VIDEO 1m46s
31 Jul 2020
https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1288907122818854913
this story should go VIRAL.
A rundown of what I do know.
The models are crap. the first model forecast one or two million dead.
The tests return plenty of false positives.
The death counts are crap. Folks dying in car accidents can be counted as covid death.
The folks returning to good health, or presented zero symtons, are not reported
Rhinovirus. This bunch is most active in early fall, spring, and summer. They cause 10%-40% of colds. You’ll feel plenty miserable when you catch one, but the good news is they rarely make you seriously sick.
Coronavirus. These tend to do their dirty work in the winter and early spring. The coronavirus is the cause of about 20% of colds. There are more than 30 kinds, but only three or four affect people.
RSV and parainfluenza. These viruses cause 20% of colds.