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Dr Birx said....of the people with significant symptoms who are being tested nationwide, 86 percent are testing negative.

Posted by ty97 Mar 26 '20, 18:51

Then what do they have, or are tests crap?

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I mentioned this the other day. For Florida, we've tested 28,644, but only 2,359 positive. 8%. - JaxSean Mar 26, 19:30 2
- Colds and flu. -- nm* - loosilu Mar 26, 19:52 1
  - I get that, but it's still a large percentage negative. - JaxSean Mar 26, 20:20
12% is still a pretty large number. -- nm - Qale Mar 26, 19:29
I remember that being the percentage that LA County's would come back. At one point, anyway -- nm - con_carne Mar 26, 19:25
It's not a bad thing that most test negative. For the love of fuck. -- nm - loosilu Mar 26, 19:13
Dr Brix, Lego Masters Star Wars, and a Lego Wafflemaker. Its all connected. -- nm - budice Mar 26, 19:02
I wonder if there is some hypochondria going on. Now I am not saying they are not sick. But maybe they come in with fever - Bacon Mar 26, 18:55 2
- For sure. It's called the Worried Well. The fact that she's using it to diminish the crisis is disgusting. Everything about this is disgusting. -- nm - loosilu Mar 26, 19:14 1
  - yep -- nm - mud Mar 26, 19:19
Isn’t the symptoms similar to flu and other colds/viruses? - Will Hunting Mar 26, 18:54 5
- We are having a flu epidemic, and symptoms are pretty much the same. Her use of that number is deliberate spin to minimize the crisis. - loosilu Mar 26, 19:19
- But how much of that is going around right now? -- nm - ty97 Mar 26, 18:54 3
  - flu season in the northern hemisphere is generally October-May. usually peaks in February, but not always. -- nm - mafic Mar 26, 18:58 2
    - Fair enough, but if Joe Biden wins the Oregon Primary he gets all of Oregon's delegates right? -- nm - Bacon Mar 26, 19:05 1
      - only if he defeats Bernie in the Thunderdome. -- nm - mafic Mar 26, 19:30
a lot of the symptoms are pretty common, so the flu, a cold, allergies, asthma, some unrelated pneumonia, probably other stuff. -- nm - mafic Mar 26, 18:54

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