The Dangers of Fake Science in Vaccine Testing: A Critical Examination

In the battle against infectious diseases, vaccines stand as one of humanity's greatest achievements. They have saved countless lives and eradicated or brought under control devastating illnesses. However, amid the triumphs of science, there lurks a shadowy counterpart – fake science. The proliferation of misinformation, pseudoscience, and fraudulent research not only undermines public trust but also poses significant risks, particularly in the crucial realm of vaccine testing. 

Why are only the vaccinated Olympic athletes testing positive for COVID-19?

Are Any Non-Vaccinated Olympic Athletes Testing Positive for COVID-19?

Vaccines might be effective at preventing death and severe illness from the disease—but they’re not foolproof in preventing infection. That’s a new problem for sports.  

The Internation Olympic Committee IOC official position remains that vaccination will be preferred but not compulsory.  

All that encouragement has added up to a large majority of athletes arriving vaccinated. The IOC said in a statement  "well above" 80% of athletes in Tokyo will be vaccinated. And, an estimated 11,500 athletes and an additional 79,000 staff, journalists, and officials are traveling to Japan for the Games. 

Athletes had to submit two negative COVID-19 tests taken within 96 hours before they left for Japan, whether they were vaccinated or not, according to the playbooks, with at least one of the tests taken within 72 hours of departure. They also have to undergo daily antigen tests.

The rules around testing are strict: Athletes who refuse to be tested will be barred from competition.

A star NBA player, the U.S. Open golf champion and a Ugandan Olympic coach have something in common that is creating a new headache for sports organizers: they tested positive for the novel coronavirus after being vaccinated. 

Coco Gauff 

The 17-year-old tennis star will have to wait to compete in her first Olympics. Gauff announced on Twitter that she tested positive for COVID-19 on July 18.

“It has always been a dream of mine to represent the USA at the Olympics, and I hope there will be many more chances for me to make this come true in the future,” Gauff wrote in a statement.

Kara Eaker

Eaker was set to serve as an alternate for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team before testing positive on July 19. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team was already in Tokyo when Eaker tested positive. The alternate gymnasts were rooming together, but all athletes have since been moved to separate housing.

Katie Lou Samuelson 

Team USA was forced to replace Samuelson on its 3x3 basketball team after the Seattle Storm forward tested positive on July 19. Samuelson wrote in an Instagram post that she was “fully vaccinated and took every precaution,” but she’ll still be forced to stay home from Tokyo.

Bradley Beal

The Washington Wizards star was ruled out for the Tokyo Olympics after entering health and safety protocols on July 15. Beal played in three exhibition games for Team USA this month before he was ruled out.

The Czech Olympic team received sharp words from their prime minister on Thursday as six athletes and officials on the same flight to Tokyo tested positive for coronavirus.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis called the situation "a scandal" as beach volleyball player Marketa Nausch Slukova and road cyclist Michal Schlegel tested positive in the Olympic Village.

Netherlands: Candy Jacobs and Reshmie Oogink

Great Britain: Amber Hill 

South Africa: Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi 

Mexico: Hector Velazquez and Sammy Solis

Why We Need a Placebo Covid-19 Vaccine

Mind over matter is a very real phenomenon in medicine. 

A clinical placebo is a treatment that has no intended therapeutic effect. In a clinical trial, a placebo could be a saline formulation that is typically inert when injected. Or, the placebo could be the formulated mix of salts and leftover impurities that are present with the vaccine under investigation minus the active ingredient (vaccine).

In using a placebo while testing vaccine trials investigators want to eliminate any thoughts, views, emotions, and expectations as much as possible. Study participants will not know (they will be blind) to what treatment they receive, and often so will most of the investigators (double-blind). 

The key objective of a placebo is to allow the participant to believe they have received the medicine being tested. The placebo effect is a beneficial health outcome resulting from a person’s anticipation that an intervention will help. How a health care provider interacts with a patient also may bring about a positive response that’s independent of any specific treatment.

It is my view that if we had a more positive outlook on the likelihood that you will be just fine if you get the virus and treat it properly than we would all be living happier lives.  Having more people believe they have taken a Covid-19 vaccine might have an amazingly positive effect on society.  

What is the nocebo effect?

Scary health stories about COVID-19 pour out of the media floodgates every minute. These might be causing “nocebo effects” – where we become more ill because we expect to, as opposed to the better-known placebo effect where we become less ill due to our expectations. This could be happening on a large scale just now. 

We are understanding more and more about how nocebo effects work. Emotionally charged negative information from an authoritative source can make someone expect a negative symptom such as pain or breathlessness. Then, like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the expectation itself can cause the symptom. These expectations are associated with the production of neurotransmitters that induce an increased sensitivity to pain and a wide variety of other symptoms. Fear and anxiety heighten this process.

A fascinating study examined the impact of the placebo effect in 84 trials of nerve pain treatments that took place over the prior 23 years. The researchers found that the placebo effect has become remarkably stronger, but this observation was only noted in U.S. studies. Why? One theory is that the flood of direct-to-consumer drug advertising in the U.S. (which is not allowed in most other countries) increases patients’ expectations that medication will help them. Stronger and higher expectations of a drug’s effectiveness may translate into a bigger placebo effect.  

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"Casedemic" Why COVID-19 Testing Is A Massive Waste of Resources

The mantra has been to test, test, and test some more since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, major concerns emerged right from the beginning about the tests being used to diagnose this infection, and questions have only multiplied since then. 

As a rationale for keeping vast parts of the planet locked down for the better part of 2020, positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) experiments have been used. 

This, despite the fact that PCR tests with high false result rates have proven surprisingly inaccurate and are not intended to be used as a diagnostic tool in the first place because they do not differentiate between inactive and "live" or reproductive viruses. 

Dr. Mike Yeadon, Pfizer's former vice president, and scientific director, also went on record saying that false-positive results from faulty PCR tests are used to "produce a 'second wave' based on new cases,'" when a second wave is quite unlikely in fact.

A positive test does not actually mean that an active infection is present. As noted in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention publication on coronavirus and PCR testing dated July 13, 2020:

• Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of an infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.
• The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring the treatment of 2019-nCoV infection.
• This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.

So, what does the PCR test tell us, actually?

From your nasal cavity, the PCR swab extracts RNA. The reverse transcription of this RNA into DNA is then completed. The genetic snippets, however, are so tiny that they must be amplified to become discernible. Each round of amplification is called a loop. 

Amplification over 35 cycles is known to be inaccurate and technically unjustified, but 45 cycles are set for Drosten tests and tests recommended by the World Health Organization. 

"What this does is enhance some even negligible sequences of viral DNA that might be present to the extent that even if the viral load is extremely low or the virus is inactive, the test reads "positive. You end up with a much higher number of positive tests as a result of these excessive cycle thresholds than you would otherwise have.

We've had concerns with defective and tainted samples as well. German researchers rapidly developed a PCR test for the virus as soon as the genetic sequence for SARS-CoV-2 became available in January 2020. 

The New York Times announced in March 2020 that the initial test kits produced by the CDC had been found to be faulty. The Verge also stated that in turn, this defective CDC test became the basis for the WHO test, which the CDC eventually declined to use.

PCR Tests Cannot Detect Infection

Maybe most notably, inactive viruses and "live" or reproductive viruses can not be separated by PCR tests. 

What that means is that infection can not be identified by PCR tests.   It can't tell you whether you're sick at the moment, whether you're going to show symptoms in the near future, or whether you're infectious. 

The tests may accumulate dead debris or inactive viral particles that do not pose any danger to the patient and others at all. What’s more, the test can pick up the presence of other coronaviruses, so a positive result may simply indicate that you’ve recuperated from a common cold in the past. 

An "infection" is when a virus penetrates and replicates in a cell. Symptoms set in as the virus multiplies. A person is only contagious if the virus actually replicates. As long as the virus is inactive and not replicating, both the host and others are totally harmless.

Chances are, if you do not have symptoms, a positive test simply indicates that your body has detected inactive viral DNA. This will also suggest that you are not infectious and pose no threat to anyone. 

A number of highly respected scientists around the world now believe, for all these reasons, that what we have is not a COVID-19 pandemic, but a PCR test pandemic. In his article 5, "Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics, The Deadly Danger of False Positives," on September 20, 2020, Yeadon explains why it is so troublesome to base our pandemic response on positive PCR tests. 

In short, it seems like millions of individuals are actually found to be carrying inactive viral DNA that poses no danger to anyone and the global technocracy is using these test results to introduce a brand new economic and social structure focused on draconian surveillance and totalitarian controls.

“The test’s threshold is so high that it detects people with the live virus as well as those with a few genetic fragments left over from a past infection that no longer poses a risk. It’s like finding a hair in a room after a person left it, says Michael Mina, MD, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York, and Nevada, up to 90% of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The New York Times found...

'We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,’ Dr. Mina said. ‘We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.’

But ‘yes’ or ‘no’ isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. ‘It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,’ Dr. Mina said.”

Again, medical experts agree that any cycle threshold over 35 cycles makes the test too responsive, as it begins to pick up harmless inactive fragments of DNA at that point. Mina suggests 30 or less will be a more fair cutoff. 

The CDC's own estimates indicate that it is highly impossible to detect live viruses in samples that have gone through more than 33 cycles, according to The New York Times, and studies reported in April 2020 concluded that patients with positive PCR tests with a cycle threshold above 33 were not infectious and could be released from the hospital or home isolation safely. 

Importantly, when officials at the New York State Laboratory, the Wadsworth Center, reanalyzed research data at the request of The Times, they found that about 43 percent of the positive outcomes were removed by changing the threshold from 40 cycles to 35 cycles. A whopping 63% was removed by restricting it to 30 cycles. The Response to Vaccine adds:

“In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90% of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. ‘I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,’ he said.

‘I’m really shocked that it could be that high — the proportion of people with high CT value results,’ said Ashish Jha, MD, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. ‘Boy, does it really change the way we need to be thinking about testing’...

In late August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment. Made by Abbot Laboratories, the 15-minute test [BinaxNOW] will sell for U.S. $5 but still requires a nasal swab to be taken by a health worker.

The Abbot test is the fourth rapid point-of-care test that looks for the presence of antigens rather than the virus’s genetic code as the PCR molecular tests do.“

Massive Waste of Resources

As Dr. Tom Jefferson and Professor Carl Henegan noted in an article in the Daily Mail on October 31, 2020, 16 mass PCR research was a huge waste of resource, as it does not provide us with the data we really need to know-who is contagious, how far is the virus spreading and how quickly does it spread? 

Instead for weeks and months on end, it has contributed to economic damage from company shutdowns and isolating non-infectious individuals in their homes. Jefferson and Henegan say that about a month ago, they discussed their pandemic response plan with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and just introduced it again to him. They write, "We encourage him to pay attention and accept it," adding:

“There are only two things about which we can be certain: first, that lockdowns do not work in the long term... The idea that a month of economic hardship will permit some sort of ‘reset’, allowing us a brighter future, is a myth. What, when it ends, do we think will happen? Meanwhile, ever-increasing restrictions will destroy lives and livelihoods.

The second certainty is this: that we need to find a way out of the mess that does no more damage than the virus itself... Our strategy would be to tackle the four key failings.”

Four areas where we are failing as a society area are:

1. Addressing the concerns in the mass testing program of the government 
2. Addressing' the calamity of confused and unreliable figures' 
3. Secure and isolate the weak, especially the elderly, but also general and staff hospitalized patients, while allowing the rest to retain "some semblance of normal life" 
4. Inform the public of the real and quantifiable lockdown costs that "destroy individuals just as surely as COVID-19"

There is real hope if we do these things that we will learn to live with the virus. That, after all, was supposed to be the plan,” Jefferson and Henegan note. "As far as testing is concerned, the pair calls for a national quality management testing program to ensure that reports are reliable, precise, and consistent. 

Importantly, on positive/negative readings alone, we must not rely on. To assess who potentially presents an infectious risk, the findings must be analyzed in relation to other variables, such as the subject's age and whether they are symptomatic. At the end of their Daily Mail post, you can check the full details of their proposed proposal.

Lockdown hazards have been kept out of the public debate 

Jefferson and Henegan are not the only ones who illustrate the fact that more damage and devastation than the virus itself is caused by the global lockdown strategy. In an article in The Federalist on June 16, 2020, James Lucas, a New York City attorney, wrote:

“If we’re going to allow models and modelers to dictate the entire nature of our society, one would hope that the models are as complete as possible. Yet the epidemiological models that have so transformed our world are seriously incomplete, and therefore fundamentally inadequate.

Any medical therapy is supposed to be tested for both efficacy and safety. There have been several studies examining the effectiveness of the lockdowns in combating the spread of the COVID-19 virus, with mixed conclusions.

So far, however, none of these studies or models have analyzed the safety side of the lockdown therapy. In response to questions from physician Sens. Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy, Dr. Anthony Fauci admits this side of the equation has not been accounted for in the models now driving our world.

As noted in an open letter recently signed by more than 600 health-care professionals, the public health costs from the lockdowns — described as a ‘mass casualty incident’ are real and growing.

These models are estimations based on existing research. The constantly changing projections of coronavirus deaths are extrapolations from research on previous epidemics. Yet modelers have no excuse for leaving evaluations of the lockdowns’ massive costs to public health out of their models.”

The Hidden Costs of Lockdowns

How does public safety impact "lockdown therapy"? Lucas highlights the following in his article: 

Research23 by the Veterans Department has shown that delaying cancer treatment by only one month has contributed to a 20 percent rise in mortality due to elevated chronic disease rates due to unemployment, poverty, and placing non-COVID medical care on hold. Research23 Another study showed that each one-month delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer increased mortality by 10%. 

Rising rates of problems with mental health due to unemployment and isolation 

Increased suicide death rates were correlated with a two-fold to three-fold greater relative suicide risk in one study. "A more recent report reports that "deaths of misery" are related to maybe around 75,000 lockdowns in the U.S.

Reduced collective life span is often associated with shorter, unhealthier lives with extended unemployment. A prolonged economic shutdown could shorten the lifetime of 6.4 million Americans entering the labor market by an average of around two years, Hannes Schwandt, a health economics researcher at Northwestern University, reports. Lucas notes:

“If epidemiologists don’t care to take account of this toll, another profession must. A study28 just released by a group of South African actuaries estimates that the net reduction in lifespan from increased unemployment and poverty due to a national lockdown will exceed the increased lifespan due to lives saved from COVID-19 by the lockdown by a factor of 30 to 1.

In other words, each year of additional life attributable to isolating potential coronavirus victims in the lockdown comes at a cost of 30 years lost due to the negative public health effects of a lockdown...”

Education shortages are also linked to significantly shorter life spans and poorer health. High school drop-outs die on average nine years earlier than college graduates, and poorer students are disproportionately impacted by school closings.

Who Pays the Most?

As Lucas pointed out, modelers must therefore decide "on whom those costs fall," in addition to estimating the total cost to society, since the costs are not met equally by everyone. Those who are also the most disadvantaged, both financially and health-wise, such as those living near the poverty line, the chronically poor, individuals with mental illness, and minorities in general, are disproportionately affected by the effects of the lockdowns.

“Contrary to the PR slogan, we are NOT all in this together,” Lucas writes. “We need less insipid pro-lockdown propaganda extolling the virtues of the ‘essential’ workers, and more serious analysis of the enormous public health toll the lockdowns are imposing on them. Otherwise, we may come to see the era of coronavirus as simply the time where pro-lockdown elites sacrificed the working class31 to protect themselves.”

A Pandemic of Fearmongering

An October 28, 2020, article featured by the Ron Paul Institute points out that:

“Ever since the alleged pandemic erupted this past March the mainstream media has spewed a non-stop stream of misinformation that appears to be laser focused on generating maximum fear among the citizenry.

But the facts and the science simply don’t support the grave picture painted of a deadly virus sweeping the land. Yes, we do have a pandemic, but it’ a pandemic of ginned up pseudo-science masquerading as unbiased fact.”

The article notes that nine facts that can be backed up with evidence paint a very different image of the fear and dread being continuously drummed into the minds of naive people. In addition to the fact that PCR testing is practically useless, for all the reasons already mentioned, these data-backed facts include: 

1. "As Dr. Lee Merritt explained in her August 2020 Disaster Preparedness Doctors 33 lecture, featured in How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Inevitable," media and public health authorities tend to have deliberately combined "cases" or positive tests with the actual disease. A positive test is NOT a "case.

Medically speaking, a' case' refers to a person who is ill. It never referred to anybody who had no signs of illness. This well-established medical phrase, "case," has now been totally and arbitrarily redefined, all of a sudden, to mean anyone who tested positive for viral RNA involvement. That is not epidemiology, as Merritt noted. It is a scam. 

2. According to the CDC34 and other research data,35 the COVID-19 survival rate is over 99%, and the vast majority of deaths occur in those over 70, which is close to normal life expectancy. 

3. Analysis by the CDC indicates that 85 percent of patients testing positive for COVID-19 "sometimes or "still" wore face masks in the two weeks preceding their positive test. As noted in the Ron Paul article,36 "The only reasonable conclusion from this research is that cloth face masks provide little to no defense against infection with Covid-19."

4. Examples involve numerous regimens involving hydroxychloroquine with zinc and antibiotics, quercetin-based protocols, the MATH+ protocol, and nebulized hydrogen peroxide, and there are affordable, proven effective therapies for COVID-19. 

5. The death rate has not risen despite pandemic deaths — Data37,38 show the overall all-cause mortality has remained steady during 2020 and doesn’t veer from the norm. In other words, COVID-19 has not killed off more of the population than would have died in any given year anyway.

As noted in the Ron Paul article, “According to the CDC as of early May 2020 the total number of deaths in the US was 944,251 from January 1 — April 30th. This is actually slightly lower than the number of deaths during the same period in 2017 when 946,067 total deaths were reported.”

15,000 Doctors and Scientists Call for End to Lockdowns

All in all, there are many reasons to believe that continuing lockdowns, social distancing, and mask mandates are entirely needless and that the trajectory of this pandemic epidemic, or the final death count, will not change drastically. 

And with regard to universal PCR testing where people, whether they have symptoms or not, are checked every two weeks or even more often, this is simply a futile endeavor that generates useless results. It’s just a tool to spread fear, which in turn allows for the rapid implementation of the totalitarian control mechanisms required to pull off The Great Reset. Fortunately, more and more individuals are beginning to see through this plot now.

The Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for the end of all lockdowns and the introduction of a herd immunity approach to the pandemic, has now been signed by around 45,000 scientists and doctors worldwide, meaning that governments should encourage individuals who are not at substantial risk of severe COVID-19 disease to return to normal life, as the lockdown strategy has a devastating impact on the population. The declaration states:

“Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health...

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to coronavirus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this focused protection.”

The declaration points out that current lockdown policies will result in excess mortality in the future, primarily among younger people and the working class. As of November 5, 2020, The Great Barrington Declaration had been signed by 11,791 medical and public health scientists, 33,903 medical practitioners, and 617,685 “concerned citizens.” 

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Elon Musk is a Great Example of Why Everyone Should Stop Testing

Elon Musk is a Great Example of Why Everyone Should Stop Testing

 

Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for COVID-19 four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

What is the general population (no knowledge of symptoms) accuracy of a sars-cov2 PCR test & is it possible to generate a false positive if you simply run enough cycles?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

Tesla creator Elon Musk says that while also testing negative, he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, giving a skeptical view of the validity of the procedures. 

In a series of tweets early Friday, after getting "mild sniffles & cough & moderate fever" in recent days, Musk said he had contradictory results from rapid "antigen" tests for Covid-19. 

There is something incredibly bogus going on. He wrote, "Was screened four times today for covid." "Two tests returned negative, two returned positive. The same computer, the same test, the same nurse." 

Musk, who dismissed fears about the pandemic and fought lockdown orders in California earlier this year, said he intended to take the more precise PCR test that had to be submitted for review to a laboratory. 

In recent weeks, rapid antigen tests have gained ground due to laboratory backlogs, but they are less prone to small quantities of viruses and are more likely to produce a false negative.

Musk seemed to reject fears about the pandemic in March, saying that "my assumption is that the hysteria would do more damage than the virus." 

Two months later, in California, he defied lockdown orders to reopen the assembly plant at Tesla, tempting authorities to arrest him. 

For the first time after a successful crew test flight in May, Musk's space company SpaceX was scheduled to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday. 

For that mission, Musk was in the control room, but NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said Friday that procedure ruled out the involvement at the Kennedy Space Center of anyone who tested positive. 

It is our policy for that person to quarantine and self-isolate when someone tests positive for Covid here at the Kennedy Space Center, and across NASA," he said in a press conference." 

"So we expect that to happen. And, you know, we're looking at SpaceX to do some appropriate touch tracing."

Since October 31, the astronauts have been in quarantine, and Bridenstine did not want to predict whether if potential contact cases were found, there was a chance of postponing the mission.

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Black Market for Negative COVID-19 tests

Black Market for Negative COVID-19 tests

As more countries need travelers to prove their negative status before joining, a black market for negative COVID-19 tests has emerged across the globe, a study said Wednesday. 

In France, seven people were arrested at Charles de Gaulle International Airport last week for allegedly hawking doctor-detected coronavirus tests, 

The Associated Press announced. For the fake checks, the perpetrators, who were not named, were fined up to $360. After discovering a man bound for Ethiopia with a fake examination, authorities tracked the ring down, according to the article. 

If convicted, the suspected scammers face up to five years imprisonment. In South America, four tourists who gave fake tests were detained by Brazilian officials after they flew into an island chain off the country's coast that allows travelers to demonstrate negative test results.

In England, a man told a local newspaper that he was able to travel to Pakistan by using a friend’s negative COVID-19 test and changing his name.

“You can simply get their negative test and change the name and birthdate to your own. You also put a test date on which is within the time limit required,” the man, who didn’t want to be named, told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“You download the email, change it and then print it,” said.

He added that he went to the lengths because he couldn’t get a test that he needed to travel because he’s not an essential worker.

“People are doing this as you can’t get a Covid test if you have to travel to Pakistan in case of an emergency. It is difficult to get one unless you are a key worker,” he said.

Why Are So Many People Agreeing to Get COVID Tests?

If people stopped getting tested for the virus, the positive case numbers would go down and the media would have less ammunition to fear-monger. 

My genuine question to those of you that are getting tested: Why are you getting tested given that the tests are: 1) Incredibly inaccurate. 2) The government is keeping a database of 'positive' people.

There are some workplaces that require it, and schools/universities, of course! Lots of people, particularly students, don't have a choice. There are also hypochondriacs getting tested over and over, and anyone who blows off contact tracers is assumed to be positive.

What is scary to me is the number of states (New York being the largest and most recent) to mandate being tested for traveling. This horrific practice may be more of a freedom threat than masks. Not even lord Newsom and daddy Inslee or even Whitmer have mandated such garbage. First, it will be a few states, then all flights, then all travel. I think more resistance to this needs to happen. 

I will not get tested unless they test me by force. 

Covid testing is also becoming a big business and makes me even more skeptical. 

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Did The News Stage "Fake Patients” In Coronavirus Testing Line in Grand Rapids, MI

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CBS News Accused of Using Fake Footage in Coronavirus Testing Report

CBS denies faking scene of crowded Michigan testing clinic alleged in Project Veritas sting

TV network CBS News has been accused by right-wing activist group Project Veritas of using a staged shot to exaggerate how bad the coronavirus pandemic has hit Michigan. Footage of a long line of cars, apparently waiting to get coronavirus tests at Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, was used in a CBS This Morning series on testing in Michigan, which accused the state’s health system of “fail[ing] some of its people.” However, Project Veritas said the CBS News crew got hospital staff to line up in their cars so it looked busier. The claim is based on an interview with an anonymous hospital “insider” who approached Project Veritas with information on the CBS shoot, and other hospital staff who are named in the clip but appear to have been filmed covertly by the “insider” discussing the staged shot.

In a statement to Project Veritas, CBS News accused Cherry Health of adding staff to the queue without their knowledge, and said the Cherry Health portion of the report would be removed. CBS This Morning admitted last month that they mistakenly used footage of an overflowing Italian hospital ward in a report on New York hospitals.

Here is the fake staging line below.

Justin Turner Says "Screw You" to the "Weasels Playing God"

Justin Turner of the Los Angeles Dodgers is a perfect example of what is wrong with COVID testing and our society today.  Why would a normal healthy person even test for the virus?  He did precisely what every normal person who is asymptomatic should do.  Live his life and celebrate with his teammates unless he is sick!  There is far too much testing fraud and subjectivity in the testing that it makes no sense to hold people hostage who have no symptoms. How do we know this test isn't another false positive test? It's just stupid and there is no credible data to support that he is even spreading the virus as a healthy person. 

Testing healthy people is the dumbest thing our society is doing right now and is precisely what is hurting our economy & school systems.  The "weasels playing god" (aka Government bureaucrats) think we can actually control this virus by testing health people.   They are morons!  Let us live our lives and let this virus run its course!  

Before the Los Angeles Dodgers could celebrate their first World Series win since 1988, third baseman Justin Turner was pulled out of the game. Later, it was reported that the 35-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19 and would not be allowed to celebrate with the team on the field. However, Turner stepped out for the team photo, took off his mask, and was seen posing with the trophy and celebrating, leaving MLB Twitter alarmed at the proceedings. 

However, videos of Turner celebrating on the field were shared online after the Game 6 win. Fans reacted negatively to the video, mostly puzzled as to why the baseman was out on the field after testing positive. "This is probably the dumbest thing that can be done," one fan wrote. However, some fans surprisingly agreed with him being on the field, as he was out with the players on the field for the game and quarantining him now would make no sense.

Thanks to everyone reaching out! I feel great, no symptoms at all. Just experienced every emotion you can possibly imagine. Can’t believe I couldn’t be out there to celebrate with my guys! So proud of this team & unbelievably happy for the City of LA#WorldSeriesChamps

— Justin Turner (@redturn2) October 28, 2020

Could you imagine being @redturn2 waiting your whole life to win a #WorldSeries & you can’t celebrate with your @Dodgers teammates because of a little cold.

— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) October 28, 2020

Justin Turner tested positive for COVID and HE’S ON THE FIELD for the celebration?!?! Unmasked at that. I feel bad for him, yeah, but this is serious stuff. Could be a false positive I guess, but the whole Dodgers roster could also get it. Nothing makes sense.#WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/W58AZkxw1R

— Craig Choate (@craigwchoate) October 28, 2020

For all of you “sports reporters” giving @redturn2 a hard time for celebrating a World Series title with his @dodgers teammates because he tested positive for a cold. I have three words for you.

EAT A DICK!

— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) October 28, 2020

10 Stories of False Positive & Fake Positive COVID-19 Test Results

False Positive COVID-19 Test Results With No Actual Tests?  Rumors or Real?

In the last few months, social media has been buzzing with people who claim they left a COVID-19 test site because of a long line and then received a positive test result.  The fake news media has been absolutely silent on this issue.  We found several stories covered by the press below. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he has become aware of people in Florida claiming they went to get tested for coronavirus, left for various reasons before getting swabbed, and then received positive results. Dozens of Florida labs still report only positive COVID tests, skewing positivity rate.  Florida is also willing to investigate rumors about positive COVID results with no actual tests. 

The NFL had 77 positive Covid-19 tests from 11 teams re-examined by a New Jersey lab after false positives, and all those tests came back negative.  The league asked the New Jersey lab BioReference to investigate the results, and those 77 tests are being re-tested once more to make sure they were false positives. 

Staff at the CVS rapid testing site in Lincoln, Rhode Island told a local healthcare worker she tested negative for COVID-19. So why did state health officials call her two days later and say she was positive for the virus?   The discrepancy first presented itself on the woman’s car windshield. After securing a time slot at the Twin River site last on Wednesday and swabbing the inside of her nose, she sat and waited in her car. About 35 minutes later, she said, her phone rang and a staff member told her she was negative for the novel coronavirus that’s infected thousands of Rhode Islanders.  Workers at the testing site put a form letter on her windshield with the results: “You were seen today for COVID-19 Point of Care Testing and have tested negative.” 

California Woman Receives Positive COVID-19 Diagnosis at CVS Site Despite Never Being Tested. A rumor quickly making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook is claiming that an LA-area resident tested positive for COVID-19 at a CVS Minute Clinic site in La Habra despite never actually attending their appointment to take the test. The images being circulated include a letter from CVS allegedly confirming the result, and though the actual content of the letter is for the most part blurry and illegible, that isn’t stopping the image from being widely shared on social media.   A closer look reveals that the original post came from Instagram account @carolina_gss and that the letter from CVS appears to be legitimate and confirms a 'abnormal/positive' COVID-19 test result. According to the Instagram user’s story highlights, CVS did get in touch shortly afterward to apologize for the mix-up but failed to offer an explanation as to how this error may have occurred.

It has been brought to the attention of the Marshall Police Department a letter indicating residents at Deer Creek Apartment complex had tested positive for COVID-19 had been distributed to the tenants.  The department would like to advise the community that this is not true and no one at that complex has been tested for COVID-19.

This form mistakenly handed out and placed on each apartment door.  Georgia nurses accuse hospital of manipulating COVID-19 test results. The lawsuit filed against Landmark Hospital in Athens has many allegations including nurses being instructed to swab incorrectly to give false results.  The nurses said the hospital instructed staff to take samples from inside someone’s throat, but send the samples to a lab run by Piedmont Hospital that only tests nasal swabs, knowing the results would turn out negative for COVID-19.

Officials with Scottsdale Police Department are asking people in the city to be careful after reports of scams related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to statements posted to the department's website and on their verified Facebook page, several Scottsdale residents have received a letter in the mail that claims to be from Maricopa County Public Health.  The letter also claims residents who test positive or "show abnormal readings" will be taken to the former Tent City jail facility for a minimum of 45 days of quarantine.

A Dover man and small business owner in Sussex County is speaking out after the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) presented him with ‘false positive’ coronavirus test results after he had already tested negative.

A disturbing fake letter is circulating on Calfsocial media, claiming to be from the state of California Department of Social Services.  The letter claims if a person is on state-assisted benefits, like Cal Fresh and Medical, the entire household must be tested for COVID-19.  It gives a fake website on where to receive free testing - and says failure to do so by June 1st could result in suspended benefits. The last paragraph states if they test positive, kids under the age of 18 would be removed from the home and placed in foster care until they have recovered.

A man in the Dayton-area, for example, recently said he got a letter saying he'd tested negative after signing up for a test he didn't end up taking. And the Mercer County Health Department said it mistakenly sent a letter instructing a man to quarantine for 10 days after he was examined, but not tested, for COVID symptoms.

Please add any new stories below in the comments. 

My mums friend booked a COVID test, went to the test site but the queue was ridiculous, she couldn’t be bothered to wait so she turned round and went home without doing one - and got a POSITIVE test result emailed to her a couple days later ???? TELL ME THATS NOT DODGY????

— beth (@bethmeakin) September 28, 2020

False Positive COVID-19 Test Results

How accurate are the laboratory tests used to diagnose COVID-19? I was wondering if someone could have a false positive due to having prior flu shots or for some other reason.

A false positive means that the test shows a positive result, but in reality, it should be a negative result. This means that a patient may be told that they have COVID-19, but they actually do not. A false negative means that the test shows a negative result, but it should have been a positive result. This means that the patient may be told they don’t have COVID-19, but they actually are infected. 

Why could this happen?

For a variety of factors, this can happen. For one thing, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could have contaminated the sample, leading to a false positive. There's also the human aspect: depending on how much is automated, a human needs to process the sample to varying levels of participation, and so the process is vulnerable to human error.  But let’s assume that hasn’t happened. Regarding the tests, it comes down to sensitivity and specificity. And this depends on how the test works.

When we speak about the accuracy of a laboratory test, such as the one used to diagnose COVID-19 infection, we are basically talking about two different kinds of precision: "sensitivity," which is the ability of the test to tell us when a person is infected, and "specificity," its ability to tell us when a person is not infected. A rather sensitive test is less likely to yield false-negative results, and a highly precise test is less likely to yield false positives.

A molecular test is a test used to diagnose COVID-19. This means that it operates by detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from genetic material. This genetic material can be detected in the nose and upper throat when someone is sick. The test utilizes a sample that is obtained by inserting a long swab through the nostril into the back of the nasal passage. It is difficult to confuse the genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 with the genetic material from other viruses, so the COVID-19 test is highly precise. This implies that it almost never produces a false positive. You may be very sure that you are infected with this virus if you are screened for COVID-19, and the test comes back positive. And, no, no positive test will be caused by a prior flu shot.

The test is not, sadly, equally sensitive. If the selection of the specimen is not done perfectly, or if the patient is in an early stage of infection or has already recovered partially from the disease, the sample of the nasal swab may not contain enough viral material to return positive. There are many stories about patients who, shortly after their symptoms started, tested negative, only to test positive on a test done later. A 34-year-old man who tested negative four times before eventually testing positive five days after being admitted to a hospital is portrayed in one case study.

Beware of COVID-19 Laboratory Testing Scams

Coronavirus Fraud Takes Many Forms as Federal and Local Officials Continue to Pursue Widespread Cases of Clinical Laboratory Testing Scams

Federal investigators have been actively searching for trends of fraud in Medicare claims data for COVID-19 clinical laboratory research since the pandemic started.

According to media studies, dating back to at least March, fraudulent actors offering fake SARS-CoV-2 tests have preyed on vulnerable Americans in a wide range of ways during the public health emergency. In return for swab collections and fake testing, the New York Times reported, some scam operators have gone into nursing homes and long-term care facilities to raise money from unsuspected elders.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Programs (CMS) no longer needs a laboratory test requirement signed by a treating physician or other provider for COVID-19 testing after the declaration of the public health emergency in the US. "The high demand for and restricted availability of SARS-CoV-2 samples, along with the decision by CMS to loosen rules during the pandemic for some test orders, makes the situation a potentially ripe one for fraud," said Modern Healthcare.

Moreover, a lack of clarification about the medical necessity of COVID-19 tests might increase the risk of liability for clinical laboratories that are law-abiding. All of these variables make COVID-19 fraud testing a possible bombshell for clinical laboratories performing coronavirus testing that could get caught up in federal research.

Feds Increasing Enforcement

The FBI, the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the FDA, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS), and other federal and local authorities have repeatedly alerted physicians, hospitals, and healthcare customers about the potential for fraud by unscrupulous firms pretending to deliver COVID-19 legitimate clinical laboratory tests shortly after the pandemic arrived in the US. "Scammers are selling fraudulent and/or unapproved COVID-19 antibody tests, potentially providing false results," a June 26 FBI press release said.

Some of the fraudsters behind these scams have operated online and through social media and email. While others have conducted these scams in person or over the phone, noted the press release. And yet, the scams and news stories about them have continued to propagate during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the warnings.

How Do The Fraudsters Work?

Fraudsters aim to collect personal information from customers in many of these scams, including names, birth dates, and social security numbers, as well as other types of personal health information, such as data from Medicare or private health insurance, the FBI said. Scammers can use the data in fraud schemes for medical insurance or to commit identity theft, the agency said.

In addition, any fraudulent or incorrect COVID-19 tests or assays not approved to be used by the FDA may give false results to physicians, potentially creating a dangerous situation for patients. 

The New York Times (NYT) recently announced that a notice "about scammers selling fake COVID-19 antibody tests as a way to access personal information that can be used for identity theft or medical insurance fraud" was released by the FBI.

The BBB added an alert to its website three days after the FBI released its warning about the COVID-19 antibody testing scam:' BBB Scam Alert: Want a COVID-19 test? "There is a scam for that." BBB also provided customers with advice about how to stop scam checking. 

The FDA announced on June 17 that it had given warning letters to three firms for the sale of adulterated and misbranded COVID-19 antibody tests, an FDA news release said. Warning letters have been sent by the department to:

• Medakit Ltd. of Sheung Wan, Hong Kong;
• Antibodiescheck.com and Yama Group;
• Dr. Jason Korkus, DDS, and Sonrisa Family Dental d/b/a My COVID19 Club of Chicago.

Other scams

The New York Times reported on April 17 that a special agent with the HHS OIG noted that impostors requesting information from Medicare or Medicaid posed as physicians or laboratory technicians in nursing homes and assisted living facilities to deliver fake tests.

The Texas Tribune reported earlier in April that the owner of a freestanding emergency room in Laredo, Texas, spent $500,000 on buying 20,000 COVID-19 rapid tests for patients suspected of having COVID-19. In Laredo, health officials decided to set up a drive-through testing site and then conduct tests to detect active infections from a manufacturer in China. City health officials learned they were ineffective and unusable after attempting to verify the samples.

An April 9 article from the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) news department reported that in several states, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, and Washington state, federal officials have found fake coronavirus testing sites. 

According to AARP, the FBI investigated several fake test sites in Louisville, Ky., after a city official confirmed the collection of biological specimens from residents by individuals in personal protective equipment ( PPE). In order to prove their identity, those requesting tests were advised to pay $240 in cash or have their Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security cards.

The AARP confirmed that fake drive-up testing sites were confirmed over a four-day period at gas stations and other locations in Louisville. 

On April 2, WRGB TV in Albany, N.Y., announced that in return for bogus coronavirus tests, scammers claiming to be from the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) were taking money and insurance details from individuals. One woman told police that she had a fake test in a Little League parking lot at a drive-up spot.

North Greenbush police said the scammers described themselves as being with NYSDOH and obtained information from several individuals about money and insurance. Police and state officials said that in the parking lot, the DOH had no connection to the collection site.

Lessons for Laboratories

The message from these stories is to be vigilant of strangers providing COVID-19 testing for clinical laboratory directors and all clinical laboratory scientists, while also making sure to post information on the legitimacy of your laboratory's rapid molecular and serological tests to customers. Doing so could entail presenting evidence that the FDA has approved the coronavirus to be used for your studies.

Medical laboratories should also ensure that proper identification is demonstrated by all workers collecting specimens in public places.

Top 10 Coronavirus Scams

Be on the lookout for and be wary of potential COVID-19 scams and abuses. Any information, complaints, or concerns can be reported to a public regulatory agency.  Its hard to determine which one but here are few FTC, FBI, Dept of Justice, US Attorney's Office, Homeland Security.  Not sure how all of these agencies or coalitions work together but someone they get the bad guys.  

Top 10 most common scams and frauds include: 

• Economic Impact Payment (Stimulus Check):  Scammers pretend to be government officials offering false economic impact payments (stimulus checks) in order to obtain personal identifying information including social security and bank account numbers.

• Diagnosis Testing Scams: Scammers offer fake COVID-19 testing kits, particularly door-to-door.

• Treatment/Cure Scams: Scammers offer fake or unproven treatment regimens that are particularly dangerous because they have the potential to do more harm than good.

• Charity Scams: Virtually every time there is a disaster or emergency, scammers set up fake charities to solicit donations that they then spend on themselves.

• Overinflated prices: The Coalition will use every tool available to hold sellers accountable who unlawfully use the COVID-19 pandemic to unreasonably inflate prices.

• Investment Scams: Scammers make false claims about tests, cures and other matters related to COVID-19 in order to entice victims to make investment decisions based on those false claims that allow the scammer to steal money and assets from Delawareans.

• Email Scams: Scammers send victims emails related to COVID-19 that appear to be from the victims’ banks, health care providers, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others for the purpose of obtaining the victims’ personal identifying information and exploiting it for the scammers’ own benefit.

• App Scams: Scammers are creating and manipulating mobile apps designed to track the spread of COVID-19 to insert malware that will compromise users’ devices and personal information.

• Insurance, Workers’ Compensation and Medicaid Fraud: Businesses and government agencies are not immune to scams. They should also be vigilant to ensure scammers do not take advantage of their businesses or customers during this pandemic.

• Scams specifically targeted at seniors: Seniors are more vulnerable than ever to common scams like the Grandparent Scam and Government Imposter Scams.  Consumers receiving a call or any contact claiming that loved ones are in danger or hurt, that they owe money and failure to pay will result in their arrest or other harm, or that their benefits are in jeopardy, do not act. Contact your loved ones or the purported agency using known, trusted contact information not sourced from the suspicious communication.

FBI Has Stopped Hundreds of Online Scams

The bureau has reviewed more than 3,600 complaints related to COVID-19 ploys that tout fake vaccines, cures and charity drives, among other things.

For example, the cooperative effort has been disrupted:

• An illicit website pretending to solicit and collect donations to the American Red Cross for COVID-19 relief efforts. 

• Fraudulent websites that spoofed government programs and organizations tricked American citizens into entering personally identifiable information, including banking details. 

• Websites of legitimate companies and services that were used to facilitate the distribution or control of malicious software.

Multiple federal agencies have worked to analyze the complaints, investigate ongoing fraud, phishing, or malware schemes, and assemble vetted referrals. Agencies have sent hundreds of these referrals to the private-sector companies managing or hosting the domains. Many of those companies, in turn, have taken down the domains after concluding that they violated their abuse policies and terms of service, without requiring legal process. Domain registrars and registries have advised the department that they have established teams to review their domains for COVID-19 related fraud and malicious activity. Cybersecurity researchers have also made important contributions by developing sophisticated tools to identify malicious domains and refer them for mitigation. Law enforcement is actively reviewing leads, including those referred by private firms, to verify unlawful activity and quickly pursue methods for disruption.

As a further example, shortly after the IRS notified the public of web links to apply for the COVID-19 related stimulus payments, the FBI identified a number of look-alike IRS stimulus payment domains. These look-alike domains are often indicative of future phishing schemes and in order to minimize the potential fraudulent use of the these domains, the FBI alerted numerous domain registries and registrars to the existence of these look-alike URLs.

“The department will continue to collaborate with our law enforcement and private sector partners to combat online COVID-19 related crime,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “We commend the responsible internet companies that are taking swift action to prevent their resources from being used to exploit this pandemic.”

The Justice Department is also working to provide COVID-19 related training and technical assistance in other countries through the International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (ICHIP) program. In one Justice Department-supported action, a state prosecutor in Brazil took down a fake site purporting to belong to a leading Brazilian brewery. The website publicized the distribution of free sanitizer, but in fact was infecting the computer systems of numerous Brazilian consumers with malware. The ICHIP-mentored prosecutor further requested that the site’s U.S.-based registrar suspend it and preserve any account and transactional data linked to the site. The investigation is ongoing, and the ICHIP continues to mentor the prosecutor remotely on this case and on best practices for engaging with U.S. registrars and providers. Similar activities are planned in other regions with ICHIP attorneys. Learn more about the Criminal Division’s ICHIP Program, jointly administered by the Criminal Division’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, here.

Numerous Justice Department components are working to combat COVID-19 related crime nationwide. For a list of department efforts, visit https://www.justice.gov/coronavirus/news.