Nah.
When you have the common cold you actually have symptoms
The comment from the CDC is referring to antibody tests. These tests are designed to tell you if you had the virus in the past. The common cold is not responsible for positive test results from PCR testing.
Most people aren't getting antibody tests, goofball. If anything, this is bad news because it means the earlier studies showing we'd already had huge #s of infected were wrong.
This is a known flaw in the antibody tests. The FDA elected to not regulate the tests, and this is what happens.
How to explain the surge in hospitalization rate then?
Monkeys typing wrote:
How to explain the surge in hospitalization rate then?
Is it surging? Spiking? Soaring?
It is really fun to see confirmation bias working in real time. Right wingers are running out of ideas and now have to cherry pick things from the CDC website. Before that, we had:
No surge. Lots more testing (but rising positive rates were exceeding any increase in testing rates--bzzztt).
It's Mexicans with the virus coming across the border to get better heatlhcare (non-essential travel from Mexico has been shut down for months).
We new that cases would increase, but we made sure that hospitals and testing capabilities would be able to keep up (AZ and TX ERs and iCUs are full and having to shut down elective procedures to get surge capacity, testing kit shortages and delays in results as testing surge overwhelms infrastructure).
It is the protests (no surge in cases in the Northeast where largest protests took place).
Oh, I don't know. Maybe you should notice that the number dying every day is climbing. Again.
This is not the common cold. Talk to a medical worker. I have friends who work in hospitals and see people dying EVERY DAY of COVID. You are lucky if this is not your experience, but just because you cannot see it does not mean it is not real. Lack of evidence of a crisis on your part is not evidence of the lack of a crisis.
What a pathetic culture we have inherited in the United States. The majority of people are intelligent, thoughtful folks who care about being responsible members of a society; then there are those who want to drag us into a morass. Your orange-faced hero is built of sand and the tide is washing over him now.
Perry M wrote:
This is not the common cold. Talk to a medical worker. I have friends who work in hospitals and see people dying EVERY DAY of COVID.
Fake news. Most hospitals have to flip a coin every day to see a covid patient.
The common cold is sure sending a lot of people to the hospital! 102% ICU capacity in Houston!
DIRECTLY FROM THE CDC wrote:
https://twitter.com/Henrik_Palmgren/status/1278518644700520448/photo/1
Bet you feel kind of stupid now for posting this when you didn't even understand what you were posting. Absolutely hilarious how many uneducated and uniformed people try to act like they know what they are talking about and then intelligent people have to show up and explain to them in the simplest of terms why they are wrong.
Truth Bomber wrote:
Perry M wrote:
This is not the common cold. Talk to a medical worker. I have friends who work in hospitals and see people dying EVERY DAY of COVID.
Fake news. Most hospitals have to flip a coin every day to see a covid patient.
Just because you can see dirt every direction from your house, and not another building other than your barn does not mean there is a not a massive public health crisis where people actually live.
You have a sudden surge because every American, except me, is flocking to get tested. I've said before if you tested all 330m Americans, you'd probably have over 100m positive test results. Remember, 95% of positives come from people with absolutely no symptoms. But that's still a person who has it. This virus is smart. By allowing most people to show no symptoms, it can spread faster. And since Americans think a virus is a political debate, then it won't stop spreading.
The "surge" is because the Democrats can't admit it wasn't as bad as feared, or they will lose the issue to Trump. And it's their only electoral issue, other than riots and burning things down. So they're painted into a corner, trapped and desperate.
Precious Roy wrote:
It is really fun to see confirmation bias working in real time. Right wingers are running out of ideas and now have to cherry pick things from the CDC website. Before that, we had:
No surge. Lots more testing (but rising positive rates were exceeding any increase in testing rates--bzzztt).
It's Mexicans with the virus coming across the border to get better heatlhcare (non-essential travel from Mexico has been shut down for months).
We new that cases would increase, but we made sure that hospitals and testing capabilities would be able to keep up (AZ and TX ERs and iCUs are full and having to shut down elective procedures to get surge capacity, testing kit shortages and delays in results as testing surge overwhelms infrastructure).
It is the protests (no surge in cases in the Northeast where largest protests took place).
It's not Mexicans coming across the border for care, it's US citizens coming back across the border.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/health/border-hospitals-coronavirus/index.html(and that's CNN reporting it even!)
[quote]Precious Roy wrote:
It is really fun to see confirmation bias working in real time. Right wingers are running out of ideas and now have to cherry pick things from the CDC website. Before that, we had:
No surge. Lots more testing (but rising positive rates were exceeding any increase in testing rates--bzzztt).
I am a left winger. Far left.
Trying to show people we are being fear mongered using market tested words.
Surging (also used frequently to puff up candidates the media is pumping up who generally are going nowhere -- Mayor Pete, Liz Warren , e.g.), spiking, and soaring are the favorites. I saw another s word used just yesterday but i forget what it was.
Funny how you know the term confirmation bias but have no idea how obvious yours is
Bad Wigins wrote:
The "surge" is because the Democrats can't admit it wasn't as bad as feared, or they will lose the issue to Trump. And it's their only electoral issue, other than riots and burning things down. So they're painted into a corner, trapped and desperate.
Hello, Mr. 2600 Deaths.
Now go away, idiot.