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Could you elaborate on how the US data is manipulated or why it is lower quality than Israel's?
by dtwest 5y ago
Could you elaborate on how the US data is manipulated or why it is lower quality than Israel's?
- willmadden 5y agoI would be happy to. The CDC changed their guidance with PCR testing so a "breakthrough case" (i.e. a vaccinated person testing positive for COVID) is defined as 28 cycles or fewer, but gave no guidance about changing the PCR cycle count for unvaccinated (which remains in the 35-40 range most places). This means it takes thousands of times less material to make an unvaccinated person a COVID "case" than a vaccinated person. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre... They constantly stealth-edit the page, so it's helpful to look at archived versions here: https://archive.is/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://archive.is/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hea... Here's an article about it: https://washingtonwatch.org/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-test-thresholds-to-virtually-eliminate-new-covid-cases/ https://washingtonwatch.org/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-te...