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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests, distorting several important metrics and providing the country with an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic. We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus. The upshot is that the government’s disease-fighting agency is overstating the country’s ability to test people who are sick with COVID-19. The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.
This is not merely a technical error. States have set quantitative guidelines for reopening their economies based on these flawed data points.
The Atlantic is not a conservative magazine. It appears to have just enough independent thinkers to tell the truth once in a while, even if it goes against the Deep State narrative. Recall that the earlier tests were designed to show that everyone was infected and should be quarantined, including goats and pawpaw fruit that tested positive.
A positive test, even when authentic, only means that someone has come in contact with the virus. The vast majority of the people are able to fight it off, much like the flu or common cold. Their bodies build antibodies which then might be detected in a “test.” That does not mean they are infected but that they have successfully fought off the virus naturally. But the CDC is counting all "positives" as if they were actual infections.
The current standards are so low that the country would never get off its current lockdown. That, of course, is the whole point. This is not really about the virus. It is about the election, and justifying mail-in paper ballots that can easily be duplicated and falsified.