
Served Its Purpose? CDC and FDA Recall Faulty COVID PCR Test
Last week, big media was salivating over the COVID Delta variant and recommendations for indoor masking, even for the vaccinated, masking young children, and the possibility of a return to last year, with social distancing, capacity limits, and busin...
'Also somehow missed by the investigative sleuths at CNN and MSNBC was the recall of a COVID rapid antigen test last month. This wasn’t just any recall but according to the FDA a serious one, “The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall. Use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death.” That’s an understatement.'
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'The other major problem is that these tests do not differentiate between COVID and influenza. From the CDC website, “CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”'
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'How many who tested positive, were hospitalized, or died from COVID actually had the flu, if the test is unable to distinguish between the two? Would this explain the absence of influenza, or seasonal flu this past year? Did we destroy the world’s economies over a bad flu season?'