Re: History of Fauci and PCR test
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 3:36 pm
woodman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:58 pmI found a video interview with Karen Kaplan from March of 2020. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but I watched this 14 minute video, and she really lacks credibility as far as I'm concerned. This was early on when the paranoia was really high so she is broadcasting that paranoia talking about how we should try not to touch our faces so much, and that we should wash our hands all the time. She describes how she washes her hands so often that her hands are raw from it. I believe hand washing for 20 seconds is a great practice, so I wouldn't dispute that although I avoid the alcohol based antibiotic purell type cleaners. She is just parroting what the msm, and The LA Times allows her to say... She is the science and medicine editor, so she is captured by whatever content that the LA Times allows her to share. It's interesting to me to see how crazy things were back then in terms of germophobia. I can imagine her having a changing room of her own in the house, and wiping down all surfaces, groceries, etc. when shopping. I went through those mental gymnastics in my mind early on, but when you think about grocery shopping for example, if you are worried about other people touching your groceries, what about the people who had to put them on the shelves? I guess she went through the whole ritual of wiping down all the groceries when she got home until she finally realized it was just stupid. She makes a nice 6 figure income so she has to play by the censorship rules. When she mentions that in Wuhan out of the first 45,000 people who were tested for coronavirus infection 81% of the cases were mild, 14% were serious, and 5% were severe. She says that 2 1/2% died, and she qualifies what she says that the pool of people in Wuhan who would have tested positive were not tested, so she says that if more people were tested the percentage of serious and severe cases and deaths would have decreased. I realize that Wuhan has a lot of air pollution, and that respiratory diseases have always been common, as well I think about how the 5G grid was turned on there. I wonder how many deaths happen on average in Wuhan which is a city of 10M or in a province of 60M people. What if they tested 10% or 1M people in the city of Wuhan in that time period? As she said if the testing sample included more people the percentages of illness would get lower. Instead of 81% it would likely approach 95% of those tested having mild symptoms. This is why many experts have determined that this is a "casedemic".Rideback wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:37 pm A good piece from LA Times on impact of being vaccinated, California specific but makes the point.
'Good evening. I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, Feb. 1. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
Considering how readily the Omicron variant spreads, a lot of people have been wondering whether COVID-19 vaccines are still of any use. To answer this question, let’s take a look at the COVID-19 death tolls in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The southern part of the state recorded more than 2,400 COVID-19 deaths in January, when Omicron dominated the coronavirus landscape. That’s equivalent to 10.6 deaths per 100,000 residents.
The Bay Area, meanwhile, had just over 300 COVID-19 deaths last month. That works out to 3.7 deaths per 100,000 residents.
What accounts for the fact that the COVID-19 death rate was nearly three times higher in Southern California than in the Bay Area? Vaccines.
“Because of our high vaccine rate, and because of our booster rate, we are not in a situation like other parts of the country that have lower vaccination rates, where there are very high numbers of death, where they’re not able to staff their hospitals adequately,” Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco’s director of health, said at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting.
He’s not the only one who thinks vaccines deserve the credit, my colleagues Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money report.
The difference in death rates in the two parts of the state “can largely be accounted for by these important differences in percent [of people] vaccinated and boosted,” said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla. “Undoubtedly, other factors contribute, but their impact is likely much less.”
A man in glasses, plastic gloves and mask administers an inoculation to a woman in a mask.
Ivonn Cruz gets a shot of COVID-19 vaccine from Micheal Federico at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
In Los Angeles County, 69.8% of all residents are fully vaccinated, and 46.4% of them have gotten a booster shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Orange County, those figures are 69.8% and 50.2%. They’re lower in San Diego County and the Inland Empire — only 56.7% of Riverside residents and 55.6% of those in San Bernardino County are fully vaccinated, CDC data show.
Travel north a few hundred miles and you’ll find that 82% of San Franciscans are fully vaccinated and 63.9% of them are boosted. In Santa Clara County, the most populous county in the Bay Area, 84.1% are fully vaccinated and 57.9% of them are boosted.
With higher vaccination and booster rates, the Bay Area experienced fewer coronavirus cases in January, and that lower case rate resulted in a lower COVID-19 death rate, said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, an epidemiologist at UCLA.
This shouldn’t be all that surprising. Health officials and other experts have told us a time or two that the best way to reduce one’s risk of developing a severe — or fatal — case of COVID-19 is to get up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations. In early January, Californians who were unvaccinated were 6.9 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and 16.9 times more likely to die of the disease compared with Californians who were fully vaccinated, according to the state Department of Public Health.
And compared with Californians who are fully vaccinated and boosted, those who are unvaccinated are 22 times more likely to die of COVID-19, the health department says.
A team from the L.A. County Department of Public Health published a report Tuesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that compared COVID-19 hospitalization rates among unvaccinated, vaccinated and vaccinated-and-boosted residents. If you look at Figure 1, you’ll see a graph that shows hospitalizations have always been higher for unvaccinated individuals, but the gap took off like a hockey stick about a week after Omicron became the dominant coronavirus strain.
Here’s another way of looking at it: If everyone in L.A. County had been up to date with their vaccinations and boosters, the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients during the Omicron wave through mid-January would have been 98% lower than it actually was, according to modeling estimates from researchers at USC. Surely, that would have translated into many fewer deaths as well.
By the numbers
California cases and deaths as of 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday:
As of Feb. 1, California has recorded 8.385,920 coronavirus cases and 79,284 COVID-19 deaths.
Track California’s coronavirus spread and vaccination efforts — including the latest numbers and how they break down — with our graphics.
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