Coronavirus Testing

old info. why are we supposed to watch this NOW?!! and there is evidence you can test positive and be contagious for up to 49 days after showing symptoms!!!

Notice how the pcr sensitivity question was dodged. I have been doing antibody testing for 2 weeks now and am doing so serially. Notice how he mentions commercial labs and not private or community labs. Notice how he only mentions big pharmaceutical drugs and not the effective cheap hydroxychloroquine and zinc. Wonder where the funding for his organization arises. This is the biggest dodge interview. As a physician I find this underwhelming and informationally scant. You can do far better than this. Disingenuous.

Did anyone catch any useful answer on how reliable the tests are? What % of infected patients comes out as positive? 'Very high' doesn't cut it for me. And, interestingly, how much false positive is to be expected?

Is this test positive in some other health conditions? Why there is not diagnostic photographies of Corona virus by electronic microscope into the cell? Dr Steiner did not take this prove as a scientific prove of virus.

Testing only the people with symptoms means the “super spreaders” are still out free to spread more

Swab procedure shown (32.20) is nasal, NOT nasopharyngeal which would be the correct way to sample for coronavirus. Please JAMA correct it to prevent from false negatives.

I took a look through the list of nations with many Corona-cases. I found some nations standing out, small populations but many cases: fex. Qatar, Bahrain, Hong Kong and Macao. These are air-traffic hubs as well as trading hotspots. The travellers are well off and dwell in hi-tech offices/hotels. They ought not to contract; they´ve got everything cleaned around them, can take a shower anytime. The only "crook" I can find which is common to stylish airplanes, offices, hotel rooms and hospitals, is that they all have air condition. So, if the corona-virus can survive a ride through the ventilation, this might explain a part of this unexpectedly fast spread. A high pressure blow-through and liquor-drenched filters might do a part of the job?

Great interview! The exchange of information in the interview format was very impactful. Keep up the good work, praying for all at the national policy level!

Why do we have nothing but jokers running the country? This includes nearly all politicians and the heads of all the alphabet agencies. This corona virus will be gone by mid summer. They have no idea how many people have corona virus or how many people have died from it. They count whoever they want to get the numbers they are looking for to fool the people into believing that it will be the corona virus than ruined the economy instead of the policies of the central banks. This is when all the while they have been fleecing the public of all their hard earned wealth. Wake UP People!

Far too lax concerning social gatherings. All non-essential gathering needs to cease completely. Only grocery, pharmacy, bank, and doctor visits that can't be delayed. That's it. No friends over, family visits, or the like. This is wartime. Celebrate after.

Thank you both for taking the time to share your current knowledge with the world.

If i as a nurse stay home esp since we don't have access to enough PPE who takes care of the patients? the reason as you say most don't stay home during the flu season is just for that reason. We know in theory its best to stay home BUT if we all actually did that, every time we had flu like symptoms the hospitals would collapse and patients would go untreated. Most hospitals have staffing issues, you get 1 call out with just adequate staff can make a manageable night into a nightmare. This is why even my hospital has said even if we get exposed we will still be expected to come to work, and will not be tested despite exposure unless we show symptoms of illness. you better believe if hospitals get inundated with patients nurses/doctors will be asked to work sick, no one staying home in a pandemic cause you have the sniffles. ..

34:57 he doesn't sound convinced to me. Ughh..

Only a small percentage of people have died. We need widespread accurate testing.and guidelines to use for prevention and if positive proper medical treatment if necessary. We must contain this disease the best we can. The misleading info tRump submitted can cost human lives. We are each responsible to limit our individual exposure and prevention of its spread.

As of this moment, the CDC website is showing 4'255 tests performed by the CDC and 20'907 tests performed by US public health laboratories. It seems vastly insufficient. I hope they ramp it up very quickly. Is there anything the public at large can do to help free or increase resources to help in ramping up testing capacity? As an example, Italian newspapers today were talking about a private company 3d-printing respirator valves to help a local hospital.

You got to get over this lackadaisical attitude …. this lame duck approach was used in 1918… moving into gross negligence that will knock this country back to the Middle Ages….then again what they don’t know won’t hurt them…..

in the USA you have not yet understood that it is the asymptomatic people who infect hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people a day. In the next days I wish you more restrictive actions. You have no idea what this virus can do. Increase testing and quarantine. Good luck.

You guys are unreal. The worst global public health crisis in over a century is raging right now and you are hedging and equivocating. Clear and resolute thinking to guide bold and decisive action is needed right now, not evasions and circumlocutions. As Patton said, a good solution vigorously applied now is superior to a perfect solution applied next week.

There is absolutely no excuse for not having a fully deployed PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 by now. Dr. Butler’s remark evading the fact that the US doesn’t even have sufficient reagents to be able to run these tests is stunning. Doesn’t this country have chemical engineers anymore? Why aren’t they working 24/7 on solving this impasse? We should be running a million PCR tests per day by now. China’s Draconian measures are clearly working and bought us precious time that was squandered. If we could have deployed a PCR test 3-4 weeks ago to allow us to see where SARS-COV-2 was replicating and contained those cases, we might have been able to avoid lockdowns and authoritarianism. Now, it looks like there is no other way. The American people are not going to well tolerate lockdowns and restrictions on their freedom of movement.

The red tape needs to be cut, the bureaucratic inertia must be overcome and the equivocations and evasions must cease immediately. If you guys can’t lead, then get out of the way and get someone who, beside being knowledgeable, is bold and decisive enough to take the required action and get things done. Making speeches and writing papers doesn’t cut it.

Or maybe the Elite are getting tested rn? That is why many are negative!

My guess (why kids are not as susceptible) is due to their thymus (says a non MD/immunologist)

When can we expect an antibody test? Isn't it essential to know who has had the virus and recovered, especially if the recovered are immune and can return to normal life?

We still do not have sufficient tests. An example is the following true story unfolding now:

A trainer was sent to a call center with 100 employees on a single floor with work stations 4' apart. He trained employees in groups of te. The trainer dppeared to be sick. An employee in one group came down with a cough but no fever five days later and went on vacation. His wife came down with a cough and fever. They went to visit the rife's family who all five became sick with cough and fever. Upon the end of the vacation the worker returned to work still coughing. His supervisor advised him to cough into his elbow. Nobody got tested.

Excellent video! Thank you. Wish the regular media would conduct more of these interviews.