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U.S. Government Drops Requirement to Test at End of Self-Isolation Because PCR Tests Produce So Many False Positives

by Will Jones
30 December 2021 10:00 AM
PCR test to COVID-19 in doctor hands close-up, woman in white holds coronavirus swab collection kit. Concept of corona virus diagnostics, medical testing, cure and treatment during pandemic.

PCR test to COVID-19 in doctor hands close-up, woman in white holds coronavirus swab collection kit. Concept of corona virus diagnostics, medical testing, cure and treatment during pandemic.

The U.S. CDC has finally acknowledged that PCR tests produce false or cold positives following infection and dropped the requirement to be tested at the end of self-isolation, bringing American practice in line with the U.K.’s. ABC News has the story.

The newly updated CDC guidelines don’t require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told “Good Morning America” Wednesday.

“So we would have people in isolation for a very long time if we were relying on PCRs,” Walensky said.

LATEST: The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tells @GMA. https://t.co/p6HUxeD4Go pic.twitter.com/TmVaF0eRcG

— ABC News (@ABC) December 29, 2021

What’s baffling is that this is only now being acknowledged, when it has been a known issue since the beginning of the pandemic. How many people have had to remain isolated as PCRs have kept coming back positive? How much has this unnecessary isolation cost them and the wider economy?

This is tantamount to an admission by the CDC of gross incompetence, as the agency doesn’t even claim anything has changed or been newly discovered. Its experts either knew this information previously and didn’t act on it or didn’t know and have only just come across it even though it’s been highlighted as an issue for over 18 months. Either way, it is incompetence.

Tags: CDCFalse PositivesPCR TestSelf-Isolation

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago

Given how much information and data have been suppressed, altered, distorted or otherwise tampered with, it is to be expected that revelations of this sort will come thick and fast.

Of course, in the UK, getting to the bottom of things like the falsified NHS data, vaccine adverse reactions and many other similar things will be like getting blood from a stone.

After all, what use are cover-ups on a massive scale if they aren’t kept covered-up?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Is that the CDC that’s in bed with big pharma?

I wonder if the CDC will get sued for medical incompetence in those corrupt courts…

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

This woman needs a Nuremberg

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago

Not incompetence, fraud. They knew right from the start that this was possible. No purified isolate of the virus has ever been found to specify these tests against.
Fraud. The whole covid testing show is fraud.
Something was released to cause illness but not what they were testing for.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
3 years ago

They knew this right from the start and admitted it openly a few months ago – yet decided to wait until the end of December to stop the PCR tests. Why?
The sceptic in me says that they were waiting/hoping for a large take-up of the toxic jabs before stopping the tests so that they might demonstrate jab effectiveness (only to the sheep, of course).

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Oh boy this is beginning to unravel rather quickly isn’t it?

News from Israel is that they are considering ending restrictions and opting for mass infection.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Couldn’t believe it, had to check:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-covid-outbreak-intensifies-israel-said-mulling-mass-infection-policy/

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

‘That would mirror Sweden’s policy in the early stage of the pandemic, which saw the country elect not to impose major restrictions on people who aren’t in risk groups, in a bid to continue normal life while eventually reaching herd immunity.

While that was widely seen as a failure, and Sweden then changed course, the increasing prevalence of the Omicron strain — which is more infectious than the Delta variant but causes milder illness — has led Israeli officials to mull such a move, the unsourced report said.’

They will all claim the data has changed and that they did the right thing at the right time all along, you can bet you ass.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

That would also mirror the UK’s approach until the Imperial College lies panicked the barrel of lard and Princess Nut Nuts

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Jo
Jo
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

It will be interesting to see if the triple jabbed majority have a working immune system after this.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Wow.

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PatrickF
PatrickF
3 years ago

Yup. Politics. Not health.

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Thomas Ellenberg
Thomas Ellenberg
3 years ago

The FDA allready knew last year that it makes no sense to test for “re”-infection within the following three months after initial infection. But everybody seems to be missing the point. If your (first) test is positive, this can also mean that your infection can be up to three months old and long gone.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

PRC Faux Pandemic!

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

They are short of test kits. Hey ho, suddenly tests aren’t needed. Yay.

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X - In Search of Space
X - In Search of Space
3 years ago

How many people have had to remain isolated as PCRs have kept coming back positive? How much has this unnecessary isolation cost them and the wider economy?

Not to mention it being yet another contributor ladies and gentlemen to the wildly inflated number of … [fanfare] ….. cases.

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

The CDC have the article they put out on July 21st 2021 about PCR tests being useless and should no longer be used by 31st Dec.

If they knew it was useless have a year ago, why not phase it out then? Maybe Dementia Joe was told say the federal govt cannot stop the pandemic yesterday in co-ordination with changes in policy next week?

Happy new year everyone, if you think the last 2 years was a ride, wait till the financial mess picks up.

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Mr10Percent
Mr10Percent
3 years ago

The FDA announced in July 2021 that the PCR test was subject to a Class 1 (highest) product recall. Effective recall date is 31 December 2021.

They know this test cannot differentiate between Influenza and so-called Covid 19. This has been the main backbone of this scam since it started.

Imaginary problem >> Test with indicates problem >> over-amplify >> test, test, test >> So-called cure >> even more imaginary problem >> wide-spread paranoia by the weak minded who will happily give up freedom for so-called “security”.

Last edited 3 years ago by Mr10Percent
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Username1
Username1
3 years ago

So PCR tests are reliable enough to put you in isolation, even when you’re not feeling sick, but when you’ve finished being not sick they are not reliable enough to show you are not sick. Got it.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

In normal life when you contradict your arguments or own evidence YOU LOSE. You furk off with tails between legs. Nowadays you contradict yourself? It’s good! You’ve won the argument!

How to dislodge Hell itself, when self-contradiction makes it thrive?

Jesus was wrong: Satan loves being divided against himself! 😣😣😣

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iane
iane
3 years ago

Hmm, gross incompetence? I think not: gross vested interests, corruption and politicizing.

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RW
RW
3 years ago

Nothing new here. I had an NHS leaflet which explicitly stated that people who PCR-tested positive once shouldn’t have another PCR for 90 days to avoid cold positives months ago. Like the vaccine effectiveness against infection, to be proven, disproven or impossible to quantify by whatever the predominant correlation du jour happens to be, that’s another well-known fact everybody tries very hard to ignore.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago

Off topic – but I just watched a clip of Robert Kennedy jnr explaining why Pfizer etc are so crazy to jab children. (On fatemperor.twitter). It’s because under US law once a “vaccine” is licensed for children the makers are protected from liability. Sure, they currently have protection for them as unlicensed products – once they are licensed though they can be sued, unless their use widens out to kids.
Hah. Reassuring in a funny way…. money, money, money.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

And the No Shit, Sherlock! Prize for 2021 goes to…

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Welshp
Welshp
3 years ago

Gates & Soros will be replacing PCR with their new super duper gold standard test anytime now!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bill-gates-and-george-soros-buy-out-uk-covid-test-company-mologic-70c3r736b

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
3 years ago

This is the headline I saw!

This is BIG NEWS.
After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.

Here:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/huge-cdc-withdraws-use-pcr-test-covid-finally-admits-test-can-not-differentiate-flu-covid-virus/

Which contains a link direct to the CDC website.

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
3 years ago

Yes!

And yet, just this morning the idiotic smiley shiny people on UK brekky telly and various other areas of our junk propaganda MSM, continue to push hard for more testing, at least 8 million tests needed around the country, test kits shortage in many areas.

Ooh, another shortage… what, like petrol, turkeys, Xmas trees, loo roll, now test kits…?

That’ll get the moronic out clamoring for more tests, that’ll get the case numbers up, that’ll mean we can lock the bastards up / down again. Whoopee do!

WTF is wrong with people who believe a single word of this bare-faced propaganda and lies (rhetorical) who desperately need to get tested, symptomatic or not? So they can decide whether or not to go out and party? Yep, there are plenty of those. Jeez!
Just another example of PsyOp PUSH from desperate Despots. Let’s tell them there’s ‘a shortage’ and everyone will panic; they’ll all want some, and probably two of ‘em, FFS. The trouble is there will be many who fall for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/johnson-blamed-for-covid-test-shortages-as-cases-hit-record-183000

I want to punch something.

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