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CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus
2021-12-30
[Gateway] After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.

Via the CDC website:

In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.

This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.
Spusosh Croluck9804 gives us the Global Research post on the subject, commenting:
This is huge, and will be buried I suspect. You can verify the story at the CDC website.

The lab test that has been used for almost two years to identify people as having or having been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is being withdrawn. *It cannot differentiate between COVID and flu viruses.*

Think about what that means for statistics on which the pandemic lockdowns have been based.
I didn’t read the CDC statement, and previous statements on the issue since the CDC announcement at the end of July that the test should be discontinued, as meaning that the test did not differentiate between Covid and influenza, but rather that the original protocol never tested for influenza at all. It seems to me, however, that the real problem with the test is that the original protocol from the WHO and CDC demanded so many amplification cycles that an unknown but very large number of results were reported as positive that should not have been. At the same time, medical staff were pushed to report many patients as having Covid who either were not infected or where Covid was a mild infection, the problem that drove them to seek treatment being something else — with Covid rather than from Covid. So the statistics were being cooked several different ways, and we will no doubt see additional — considerably lower — restatements in the months and year to come.

In other CDC news:
[Twitter]
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  Careful, that Disease Prevented is a qualitative guess, though a good judo move since the pro-vax has been braying that for a good 6 months now with taking the vax.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-12-30 18:51  

#16  AND the Doctor who developed the PCR said it was never intended to be a diagnostic tool
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2021-12-30 18:34  

#15  heh
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2021-12-30 15:55  

#14  Canadian researchers analyze Pfizer 6-month data which indicates that Pfizer’s COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent. Also, an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-30 15:49  

#13  This has been suspected since nearly the beginning.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-12-30 15:46  

#12  Point Break kicks ass.

Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-30 15:18  

#11  Lots of ways to do that, the gummint doesn't like many of them either.

For some reason, I borrowed this one from of the best cinematic masterpieces in human history, Point Break. I carry a Bic lighter in my pocket whenever I buy gas and my inner Paul Kersey is almost hoping someone tries to carjack my ass.
Posted by: Raj   2021-12-30 15:11  

#10  Of course, no one knew what would happen. But these smug, power-mad assholes will never, ever utter the words We just don't know.

They didn't know then. They don't know now. They're flying blind, botching the data, changing medical definitions on the fly, moving the goalposts.

And demonizing and siccing their Stasi thugs on anyone who questions their ridiculous ever-morphing Narrative. F--k these people. Resist them.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-30 14:59  

#9  Well. I'm "protected" from violent crime by not making myself an easy victim. Lots of ways to do that, the gummint doesn't like many of them either. But then, statistically, most people are never the victim of a violent crime, despite taking no precautions at all. Sort of like COVID.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-30 14:56  

#8  To be fair, Dr. Pruneface Wallensky looks better in an N-95 mask.
Posted by: Raj   2021-12-30 14:54  

#7  COVID is starting to look like a plague on blue places and gullible vaccine rubes.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-30 14:53  

#6  Their whole narrative is collapsing in front of us.

Here's a nice summary, with a dozen screenshots indicating how these assholes repeatedly claimed their vaccine would be a dead end for the virus and that it would stop the spread.

And then they changed their very definition of a vaccine, watering it down to mean merely "protecting," not halting.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-30 14:49  

#5  The MSM, the internet commentariat, and FB continue to muddle the issue.
There is NO one "PCR test for COVID-19 testing". There is NO one "the lab test" There are MANY RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 testing. Only one will have its EUA permit cancelled by the CDC on New Years Day. The others RT-PCR tests still have their EUA's in effect.
The CDC in its infinite wisdom somewho cannot figure out how to put this information up front and make it clear. Go to their website and search for a list of all RT-PCR's which will still have valid EUA's for continued use after New Years Day. I could not find a list, but I was able to find many RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 that will continue to be available.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-12-30 13:29  

#4  I shared this to Facebook and got the "This information is false" statement.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-12-30 07:41  

#3  So much for "no flu" in 2020.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2021-12-30 04:57  

#2  As a result of recent hospital and nursing home culling, Social Security benefits are now expected to be payable in full on a timely basis until December 2037, when the trust fund reserves are projected to become exhausted.

Previous fund exhaustion date was August 2037. Government progress continues.

Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-30 03:25  

#1  Unraveling.

Jig's up, clowns
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-30 00:40  

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