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For anyone with Rapid COVID-19 Home Tests, check your expiration date to see if they're expiring. I checked mine and they expire on July 7, 2022. I checked the FDA website to see it they've extended the expiration date and they haven't, yet. Here's the link to the FDA website so you can look up your kits. Some of the companies list just the expiration date and some list both the expiration date and lot number. Note, not all companies listed on the link have tested and extended their expiration dates.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/cor ... tests#list
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Well, I finally know someone who has COVID. My sister and her husband. Over the past few weeks, they've had a number of friends from around the country stay with them for a couple of days. One of them called to say they test positive so my sister and her husband got tested and were positive. The self-isolate for two weeks and they tested again and it was negative. They're scheduled to go on a cruise in a couple of weeks and they needed to get another test for the cruise line records. This time they tested positive. They waited a day and went to a different testing place and their test showed them negative. Fortunately, my sister of her husband were asymptomatic and different suffer any of the effect of the disease.
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Jeff Bridges Opens Up About Near-Death Illness: “Covid Made My Cancer Look Like Nothing”

Jeff Bridges is opening up about his serious bout with Covid, saying he came “pretty close to dying” and noting that “Covid made my cancer look like nothing.”

In an interview with People magazine, Bridges describes struggling for breath and being in pain during the illness, saying, “I couldn’t even roll over in bed without calling the nurse to help me with the oxygen.”

https://deadline.com/2022/05/jeff-bridg ... 235033425/
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“ Were fears about asymptomatic Covid spread overblown? Infected people without symptoms are TWO-THIRDS less likely to pass virus on, study finds
Scientists analysed data from over 28,000 Covid infections from 42 countries
Cases were from towards the start of the pandemic in April 2020 up to July 2021
They found asymptomatic people were less-likely to spread the virus to others”

“ But a new global study spanning 42 countries, including the UK and US, found they were only responsible for as little as 14 per cent of cases. ”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... us-on.html
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Authors' admitted limitation on their study:

They only looked at studies before the emergence of the Omicron variant, which while less deadly (for most), is more infectious.
They only looked at asymptomatic (never develop symptoms) cases, not the level of pre symptomatic transmission (i.e. the person is ABOUT to develop symptoms, but just hasn't yet).

This doesn't strike me as a novel finding. It was known that in terms of transmissibility, the highest rate is from people with active symptoms, then those who are pre symptomatic, and lowest from those who are asymptomatic. While I know there has been much hullabaloo about COVID droplets hanging around in ambient air, it still looks like most of the transmission is from people coughing and sneezing on others at close range, and you're going to be doing the most of that while your symptoms are at their height.

Of course, the problem is, the symptomatology of different COVID strains varies, and the other problem is its symptoms CAN resemble other diseases, if one is relying only on symptoms to know if you have it (as opposed to a test). Point being, yes, those with active symptoms are probably the highest transmitters, question is do they always recognize it from self-assessment of symptoms alone?
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ProfX wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 9:50 am Authors' admitted limitation on their study:

They only looked at studies before the emergence of the Omicron variant, which while less deadly (for most), is more infectious.
They only looked at asymptomatic (never develop symptoms) cases, not the level of pre symptomatic transmission (i.e. the person is ABOUT to develop symptoms, but just hasn't yet).

This doesn't strike me as a novel finding. It was known that in terms of transmissibility, the highest rate is from people with active symptoms, then those who are pre symptomatic, and lowest from those who are asymptomatic. While I know there has been much hullabaloo about COVID droplets hanging around in ambient air, it still looks like most of the transmission is from people coughing and sneezing on others at close range, and you're going to be doing the most of that while your symptoms are at their height.



Of course, the problem is, the symptomatology of different COVID strains varies, and the other problem is its symptoms CAN resemble other diseases, if one is relying only on symptoms to know if you have it (as opposed to a test). Point being, yes, those with active symptoms are probably the highest transmitters, question is do they always recognize it from self-assessment of symptoms alone?


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That is a tautology.

In fact, every research study has limitations. Even in physics.

And not even just those involving human subjects, behavior, and responses.

I was just commenting on this one's.
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ProfX wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 4:36 pm That is a tautology.

In fact, every research study has limitations. Even in physics.

And not even just those involving human subjects, behavior, and responses.

I was just commenting on this one's.
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Bludogdem wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 9:49 pmIt’s a fact
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carmenjonze wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 10:01 pm You're a sock.
And by definition a liar. I would not accept anything as "fact" from such a person.
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Florida principal who fought DeSantis over weakening Covid rules in schools dies from virus

A Florida school principal who challenged the push for reopening schools after a Covid surge in the state in 2020 has succumbed to complications from long Covid.

Jimbo Jackson, 55, was serving as the head of Fort Braden School when he tested positive for the virus in July 2020 and had seen the death of two employees from Covid in the school premises.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-principa ... 42584.html
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Lab leak or wet market?

“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.”

“There are still a lot of credible questions that have not been answered,” says Pond. And with “no overwhelming evidence in either direction,” he adds, he is “puzzled as to why it’s necessary to push in one direction.” (Responding to written questions, Andersen said, “I have no particular stake in the idea that SARS-CoV-2 came from the market and not from virology research. The science speaks for itself and the evidence is clear.”)

Simon Wain-Hobson has his own hypothesis for what is taking place: The group of scientists pushing the claim of natural origin, he says, “want to show that virology is not responsible [for causing the pandemic]. That is their agenda.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03 ... ontroversy


“ THE LAB-LEAK THEORY IS LOOKING STRONGER BY THE DAY. HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW.
A panel of journalists discuss the latest revelations regarding the theory that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.”

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/06/dec ... rine-eban/
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ap215 wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 1:04 pm Florida principal who fought DeSantis over weakening Covid rules in schools dies from virus

A Florida school principal who challenged the push for reopening schools after a Covid surge in the state in 2020 has succumbed to complications from long Covid.

Jimbo Jackson, 55, was serving as the head of Fort Braden School when he tested positive for the virus in July 2020 and had seen the death of two employees from Covid in the school premises.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-principa ... 42584.html
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Libertas wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 9:01 pm DeSantis murdered him
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Buttigieg, at least 14 others test positive for COVID-19 after Mackinac Policy Conference
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and at least 14 others have tested positive for COVID-19 after covering or attending the Mackinac Policy Conference last week.

In a statement issued Monday afternoon, conference organizer Detroit Regional Chamber indicated it is aware of at least 15 people who tested positive after attending the conference.

Buttigieg joined hundreds of politicians, business leaders, reporters and others at the conference Wednesday on Mackinac Island. He participated in multiple events unmasked, including press conferences and interviews, at times with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

"I have tested positive for COVID-19 and am experiencing mild symptoms. I plan to work remotely while isolating according to CDC guidelines, and look forward to when I can safely return to the office and the road," Buttigieg said......
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https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/stat ... -DWbx6NvWg


https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-p ... udit-says/

Florida’s health department undercounted COVID cases and deaths, state audit says

The Florida Auditor General report found that state health officials failed to address “inaccurate and incomplete” COVID-19 data in the first months of the pandemic.
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That press release by the Guv is blasting Rebekah Jones, the fired "state dashboard" data analyst (and political candidate). We can debate how accurate that assessment is.

However, it does not refute the findings of the state's Auditor General, who is not Ms. Jones, and pretty much has stronger credibility. That was the report posted earlier.
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:00 am Time call my to call myth busters

https://www.flgov.com/2021/05/14/new-re ... -response/
:lol:

This press release by this dirty WS relies on propaganda by National Review.

Thanks for demonstrating how easy it is to exploit undereducated conservative whites.
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carmenjonze wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:51 am :lol:

This press release by this dirty WS relies on propaganda by National Review.

Thanks for demonstrating how easy it is to exploit undereducated conservative whites.
flgov.con is not national review do try and keep up
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Absolutely, politicians never fudge anything in their press releases. :roll:

Again, if you have an independent analysis (not a press release) that challenges the state Auditor General's findings (not Ms. Jones' claims, I will concede she was on shakier ground) - you can feel free to show it.

Same story, other source:

Auditors Find 3,000 COVID Deaths Missing From Florida's Records
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-covid- ... it-1713429

A new report has laid bare a string of failings during the first year of the pandemic that meant thousands of COVID deaths went uncounted in Florida.

[snip]

According to the report, auditors found that Florida's data was so flawed that officials were unable to monitor whether their policies were effective in controlling the virus, with COVID tests not being returned, crucial data such as patients' ethnicity missing from records, and poor contact tracing that left potentially infected people free to unknowingly spread the virus.

Additionally, auditors discovered deaths from the disease had been undercounted. More than 3,000 COVID-19 fatalities recorded by doctors did not show up in the state's record of deaths.

[snip][end]

Once again, a press release that just basically says "nuh-uh" to Rebekah Jones on the state dashboard doesn't answer these questions.
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ProfX wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:56 am Absolutely, politicians never fudge anything in their press releases. :roll:

Again, if you have an independent analysis (not a press release) that challenges the state Auditor General's findings (not Ms. Jones' claims, I will concede she was on shakier ground) - you can feel free to show it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-ro ... 1654292011
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:00 am Time call my to call myth busters

https://www.flgov.com/2021/05/14/new-re ... -response/

Lol myth busting from a Ron Desantis PR? What a clown. Hilarious that you take fascist Ron Desantis’ (Donald Trump 2.0) over auditors. It’s like you haven’t at all been paying attention to how DeSantis has handled Covid since the beginning or you don’t care so you’ll defend him with your fanboyism. Embarrassing.
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Drak wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:02 am Lol myth busting from a Ron Desantis PR? What a clown. Hilarious that you take fascist Ron Desantis’ (Donald Trump 2.0) over auditors. It’s like you haven’t at all been paying attention to how DeSantis has handled Covid since the beginning or you don’t care so you’ll defend him with your fanboyism. Embarrassing.
How about the inspector general

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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/ ... 953780002/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... -rcna30647

Ready to admit you are wrong I have 4 sources
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