Uncomfortable Fact:
PCR stays Pos far too long
Most who test Pos on PCR are No Longer contagious-Esp if no symptoms
Millions have Isolated entirely AFTER contagious
(Rapid tests don’t cause this)
Why won’t FDA evaluate tests for how ppl use them: to answer “Am I Infectious?
PCR stays Pos far too long
Most who test Pos on PCR are No Longer contagious-Esp if no symptoms
Millions have Isolated entirely AFTER contagious
(Rapid tests don’t cause this)
Why won’t FDA evaluate tests for how ppl use them: to answer “Am I Infectious?
PCR has its place…
For medical diagnostics OR when you know that someone was recently exposed etc
But 2 years in, we continue to use a Binary PCR to tell people they need to isolate, without using the right cutoff or tests to ask the public health question: am I infectious?
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For medical diagnostics OR when you know that someone was recently exposed etc
But 2 years in, we continue to use a Binary PCR to tell people they need to isolate, without using the right cutoff or tests to ask the public health question: am I infectious?
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Currently, FDA evaluate tests ONLY based on their medical diagnostic utility
2 years in to the worst public health crisis in modern history, there STILL is NO effort at FDA to regulate tests based on their ability to answer relevant PUBLIC HEALTH questions.
Why?
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2 years in to the worst public health crisis in modern history, there STILL is NO effort at FDA to regulate tests based on their ability to answer relevant PUBLIC HEALTH questions.
Why?
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Rapid tests are exceptionally good at detecting ppl who are infectious and need to isolate - and not weeks after they’ve been infectious
Why do we still pretend like PCR is a gold standard when it is absolutely NOT specific to what most people besides doctors care about?
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Why do we still pretend like PCR is a gold standard when it is absolutely NOT specific to what most people besides doctors care about?
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More generally why doesn’t FDA have a regulatory path for anything having to do w Public Health?
Has the pandemic not demonstrated how important Public Health tools are?
Why try to make them fit in an inappropriate Medical tool Box?
Public Health has distinct requirements!
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Has the pandemic not demonstrated how important Public Health tools are?
Why try to make them fit in an inappropriate Medical tool Box?
Public Health has distinct requirements!
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