Covid-19 Pandemic Legitimacy & Concerns

This information was compiled for a local school board after one of the school board trustees requested more information on the legitimacy of Covid-19. Use this information to inform your family, friends and neighbors of what the facts are of Covid-19. What the authorities say in their own words.

Covid-19 Pandemic Legitimacy/Concerns

This information was compiled for a local school board after one of the school board trustees requested more information on the legitimacy of Covid-19. Use this information to inform your family, friends and neighbors of what the facts are of Covid-19. What the authorities say in their own words. 

"Deaths...were due to pneumonia, influenza, and COVID-19..."Percentages of deaths due to pneumonia, influenza, or COVID-19" https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm - Pg11

Idaho Death 2018 Compared to 2020 - 2018 deaths (1135) for the same respiratory conditions as Covid-19 are significantly higher than 2020 deaths (925 ytd). 2018 was a worse year for respiratory deaths than 2020 will be. (Oddly enough, the Idaho Health Department has forgone any CLRD or Influenza/Pneumonia reporting for 2019) https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=7256&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS - Pg 16 https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/ - Pg 1

"Due to the impact of COVID-19 on ILI surveillance, and the fact that the state and territorial epidemiologists report relies heavily on ILI activity, reporting for this system will be suspended for the 2020-21 influenza season. Data from previous seasons is available on FluView Interactive." CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm - Pg 11

After tracking for many decades, why did the CDC stop tracking Influenza in the middle of this year (2020)? Could it be because they could not report both statistics honestly and still justify the Covid-19 pandemic? Or possibly Covid-19 can not be isolated different from Influenza? 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

The Lancet Infectious Diseases- Sars-Cov-2 Compared to other Pandemics (Covid-19, no more dangerous than other viruses, in many way less dangerous).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30484-9/fulltext

Concerns for Covid-19 testing & reports in the authorities own words: 

 

• "Two kinds of tests are available for COVID-19: viral tests and antibody tests. A viral test tells you if you have a current infection. An antibody test might tell you if you had a past infection". https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html - Pg 1
• "Except for rare situations, a test-based strategy is no longer recommended to determine when an individual with a SARS-CoV-2 infection is no longer infectious." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html - Pg 2
  
• "FDA has not authorized using antibody tests to diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infection, and CDC does not currently recommend using antibody testing as the sole basis for diagnosis of acute infection." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html - Pg 3
  
• "However, there is a chance that a positive result means you have antibodies from an infection with a different virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses)." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html - Pg 2
  
• "Diagnostic tests (typically involving a nasopharyngeal swab) can be inaccurate in two ways. A false positive result erroneously labels a person infected, with consequences including unnecessary quarantine and contact tracing." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2015897 - Pg 2
  
• "Use of either known positive or contrived samples may lead to overestimates of test sensitivity, since swabs may miss infected material in practice." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2015897 - Pg 3
• "...measuring the sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 tests in asymptomatic people is an unsolved problem that needs urgent attention to increase confidence in test results..." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2015897 - Pg 3
• "In a preprint systematic review of five studies involving 957 patients (“under suspicion of Covid-19” or with “confirmed cases”), false negatives ranged from 2 to 29%. However, the certainty of the evidence was considered very low...Taken as a whole, the evidence, while limited, raises concern about frequent false negative RT-PCR results." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2015897 - Pg 3
• "It is important to note that test positivity is a measure of testing capacity and while it can provide important context about case totals and trends, it is NOT a measure of how prevalent the virus is in communities. Policy decisions, like openings and closings or interstate travel, should not be determined based on test positivity alone." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 1
• "In the U.S., there are no federal standards for reporting COVID-19 testing data. This makes it impossible to offer a fully apples-to-apples view of testing data at the national level. Without federal standards, States have been left to forge their own paths, and as a result, they report testing data differently." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 1
• "Since the beginning of the pandemic, States have changed the amount and the type of testing data they report, and have been inconsistent in how they report antigen tests." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 2
  
• "Some States also periodically pause or fully stop sharing key data that are used in making positivity calculations, or change the cadence with which they report data. Both of these actions can create abnormal spikes in positivity rates in tracking efforts such as ours." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 2
  
• "Depending on how States report data on the number of people tested (e.g., whether they deduplicate data for each person tested), calculating positivity using Approach 4 may not capture repeat tests performed on the same person." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 7
  
• "States are not consistent in how and when they release and update their data, and some may even retroactively change the numbers they report." https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/differences-in-positivity-rates - Pg 8
  
• "SARS-CoV-2 was more stable on plastic and stainless steel than on copper and cardboard, and [the] viable virus was detected up to 72 hours after application to these surfaces." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2004973 - Pg 1-2
  
• "We found that the stability of SARS-CoV-2 was similar to that of SARS-CoV-1 under the experimental circumstances tested."  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2004973 - Pg 3
  
• "Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is plausible, since the virus can remain viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days (depending on the inoculum shed)."  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2004973 - Pg 3
  
• "The purpose of this report is to provide guidance to death certifiers on proper cause-of-death certification for cases where confirmed or suspected COVID–19 infection resulted in death."  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf - Pg 1
  
•  "...a cause-of-death statement is an informed medical opinion..."  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf - Pg 1
  
• "In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely, it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf - Pg 2
  
• "In the case of death due to a COVID–19 infection, the manner of death will almost always be natural."  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf - Pg 2
  
• "The hope is that people who've been exposed to the new coronavirus will have immunity to it. There have been limited reports thus far of confirmed cases of re-infection. We don't have enough information yet to know which is the case." https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-immunity-reinfection#1 - Pg1-2
• Can you become immune to Covid once you have already been infected (video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9gvJ8ou7g
• Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same. https://www.peoplesrights.org/user/news_view?/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19-john-hopkins&id=cc7c3fdc-9612-48fe-a65c-2a5df7498a4c
• There are two paths to herd immunity for COVID-19 — Vaccines or Natural Infections - Herd immunity can be reached when a sufficient number of people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed antibodies against future infection. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/herd-immunity-and-coronavirus/art-20486808 - Pg 2

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