Traditionally a diagnosis is sought after in a case where a person exhibits a symptom or a constellation of symptoms. The concept of seeking to diagnose an asymptomatic person, one who does not exhibit signs/symptoms of ill health, is puzzling.1/
The only diagnosis a healthy person could possibly receive is that of lack of illness.
Based on this obvious logic, diagnostic tools should be only used to further investigate, to differentiate, to rule out or confirm a suspected illness.2/
Based on this obvious logic, diagnostic tools should be only used to further investigate, to differentiate, to rule out or confirm a suspected illness.2/
Testing asymptomatic/healthy people for the presence of SARS-Cov-2 is unnecessary and has lead to misleading data, which as we all know has resulted in perpetual mass hysteria and draconian restrictive measures with devastating consequences. 3/
PCR tests are not a diagnostic tool, as per the FDA's own guidelines&must not be used as a sole tool in determining the COVID health status of person.They can not measure active viral replication/load and therefore are unreliable in determining if a person is contagious or not.4/
An asymptomatic person can not be diagnosed,should not be tested and certainly can not be labeled as a case. A #COVID case should pass the test of symptom presentation, radiology findings and positive PCR test here becomes relevant only in the context of the clinical picture.5/
People showing mild symptoms of a respiratory illness must not be considered presumed #COVID cases before the above conditions are being satisfied and a differential diagnosis confirmed.6/
A presumed case is not the same as confirmed case, yet those are being piled up together contributing to the daily misleading "case" updates. If the "case" numbers are going up, why are death numbers going down?
Terminology kind of matters.
Terminology kind of matters.
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