COVID-19 is now the No. 3 cause of death in the US. But testing to find and isolate cases has dropped off

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Just as more students head back to school, health experts are worried about a disturbing trend in much of the country: decreasing testing combined with high test positivity rates.

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"Last week, Americans were eight times more likely to get killed by Covid than were Europeans," he said.Just as more students head back to school, health experts are worried about a disturbing trend: decreasing testing combined with high test positivity rates. Yet test positivity rates -- the percentage of tests that are positive -- are still higher than the recommended 5% in more than 30 states, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Kent Sepkowitz said he's worried some states may be taking cues from President Donald Trump, who said "when you do more testing, you find more cases," which might make the US "look bad." That's not nearly enough, as trial participants are supposed to reflect the population that's affected. Research shows more than half of US Covid-19 cases have been among Black and Latino people.

Health officials are trying to gain the trust of minority communities and recruit more diverse volunteers for Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trials. Unlike some other tests that require specialized supplies, the SalivaDirect test doesn't require a specific swab or collection device. It can also be used with reagents from multiple vendors.

 

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This is all complete bullshit, is FakeNews The USA is experiencing its lowest weekly death count in a DECADE! ... 🤔MSMIsTheVirus

Be more like Wuhan, there is no virus there anymore! You don’t even require masks

Death count over counted

Fake death count

FakeNews

Trump said the the US could cure covid19 by not testing.

Ontario Aug 17 Update: Daily new deaths (7-day avg) = 0 Remaining in hospital = 32 (-28 past 6 days) Will we need to see negative deaths to go back to normal?

CTVAtlantic Did you know these “test” were never meant to find infections? So what exactly are they testing?

CTV_AvisFavaro Seeing that both Covid 19 and so called Multiple Sclerosis have Vascular/Neurovascular origins. Hopefully soon eliminating a significant causative factor will be a protocol of treatment for many afflictions! CCSVI

England just deleted 5000 deaths off their official numbers and probably more to come. Now imagine Americas... considering their flu numbers completely vanished and then correct for false positives/or never happened I'd guess the Covid numbers drop at least 60% conservatively

Complete bullshit.

How many PPL had totally unrelated covid19 deaths but tested positive upon entry to hosp? How will it ever be known how many deaths covid19 caused VS dies with it? cdnpoli canada

Should be plenty by Thanksgiving if the herd is still spreading TrumpSummerFlu.

I want to see a breakdown by age to see who is dying. under 19 20 - 39 40 - 59 60 - 79 over 80

I call bull$hit

This is a bald face lie and encourages the murder of our elderly for garbage stories like this.

Let me guess the flu and pneumonia are at record low levels

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