Posted on 07/23/2020 7:57:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Deborah Birx has not joined President Trump in his revamped, and much shorter coronavirus press briefings yet this week, but that doesn't mean she's been in hiding. She shared some of her own analyses on the state of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak in an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier on Wednesday night after Trump wrapped up his presser at the White House.
Dr. Birx explained that the worst of the outbreak now seems to have moved to the South, southwest and the West. And it's time to reallocate our resources.
"Really we need the northeast and the Midwest that have those very low test positive rates to move to pooling, so that those tests can be moved to the south, the southwest and the west," she explained.
We are in a "very different epidemic than we had in March and April," she said. And it will require additional tests.
Baier, who admitted he kept Dr. Birx on for a few minutes longer than anticipated, also threw in a few questions about some controversial media takes. He presented to her two pieces, one from the New York Times, another from The Washington Post, that made a few assumptions about her, hoping to get her reaction.
The Times piece, Baier noted, called Dr. Birx "the chief evangelist for the idea that the threat from the virus was fading." The host asked his guest what she made of that assessment.
"So I - I’m a data person, so I went back to that very specific day," she answered. "I report out the data every single day. So I went back to that day, and I looked at my report. And my report started out with we are seeing improvements in New York and New Jersey, but we’re seeing increasing concerns and we’re not at peak in Boston or Chicago. We have new concerns in Houston, and we have new hotspots developing in Washington, D.C. and across the South. So, to me, that’s a very balanced report."
She added that she was "surprised" by the unfair Times report.
"I was surprised by the piece, because most people will tell you that I err on the other side, that I am too forceful and too direct often about the data and what it’s showing," she reasoned. "And I’ve never actually been called an optimist in that way before, so."
A similarly misleading report from the “Washington Post" read that Birx and others were "frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics – such as mortality rate and case count by as much as 25 percent." The Post also noted that Dr. Birx said there was "nothing" from the CDC that she could trust.
Any truth to that, he wondered?
"So, those are two pieces put together," Dr. Birx explained. "So what is CDC extraordinary about it, what are we using every single day? Their surveillance data, their epidemiologic data, their laboratory data, and their integration of all of that data, and the analysts that are down there as epidemiologists and analysts that provide those reports, I rely on those."
"That comment was about daily hospitalization data," she continued. "When we were first trying to put out Remdesivir, I – it’s important to me that there’s extraordinary equity in how we distribute medication when it’s needed for really, a very specific patient."
"And so we were having a really passionate and compassionate discussion about what’s best for patients. And we were talking about the hospital data and the importance of daily complete reporting, and that’s what we were talking about as the hospital data specifically. The epidemiology data, the surveillance data, the influenza-like illness surveillance data, the emergency room syndromic management surveillance – all terrific, critical. And it’s not just the data, it’s the people they bring to the table to analyze it."
U.S. coronavirus deaths are now over 140,000, and President Trump somberly told us this week that it's going to "get worse before it gets better." Yet, researchers are giving us reason to hope on both the vaccine and the therapeutic front.
Saw this interview, I think she understands how the media lies for their own narrative.
We are in a “very different epidemic than we had in March and April,” she said. And it will require additional tests.
What do the tests prove?
That I am not currently infected...uhmmm...sorry...forgot the new nomenclature is “that I am not currently a case”?
How do you know?
I mean the tests themselves are flawed and test for “Corona” not specifically Covid-19.
Moreover, your colleagues at FDA have a very different take on these tests:
Vendome to Jim Noble
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Page 3
INTENDED USE
Positive results are indicative of active infection with
2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected
may not be the definite cause of disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are
required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.
Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions.”
Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. Then again, maybe the COVID virus isAC not be in the patient’s body either.
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Misleading News Reports = Election Year
The left in panic mode democrat party now just a history lesson.
I think she has a more honest bone than Fauci, I’ll give her that.
The people you relied on for much of your information aren’t really helpful to your gobbley gook words either
From the World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” https://bit.ly/3cidWiS
“Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.”
Translation: Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with COVID—including plain old coronas that cause nothing more than a cold.
And here is your entire department(CDC) engaging in a very deadly and costly contrivance:
Vital Statistics Reference Guidance 03, April 2020(CDC)
See Attachment
Cause-of-Death Reporting
When reporting cause of death on a death certificate, use any
information available, such as medical history, medical records,
laboratory tests, an autopsy report, or other sources of relevant
information. Similar to many other diagnoses, a cause-of-death
statement is an informed medical opinion that should be based
on sound medical judgment drawn from clinical training and
experience, as well as knowledge of current disease states and
local trends (6).
Part I
This section on the death certificate is for reporting the sequence
of conditions that led directly to death. The immediate cause of
death, which is the disease or condition that directly preceded
death and is not necessarily the underlying cause of death
(UCOD), should be reported on line a. The conditions that led
to the immediate cause of death should be reported in a logical
sequence in terms of time and etiology below it.
The UCOD, which is “(a) the disease or injury which initiated
the train of morbid events leading directly to death or (b) the
circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the
fatal injury” (7), should be reported on the lowest line used in
Part I.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
whatever. she sucks as much as farci
“Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. Then again, maybe the COVID virus isAC not be in the patient’s body either.”
It’s the same ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ argument as the masking. If cases are up, it’s because some stupid Americans aren’t wearing their masks. If cases go down it’s because we are wearing masks, so we better keep wearing them!
I don't give her that much at all. She's every bit as bad as he is. She knows the data she's using is all crap.
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