CDC Changes Rules for Counting Breakthrough Cases, as More Fully Vaccinated People Test Positive
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will report only those breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization or death. The agency also lowered the testing threshold, but only for the fully vaccinated.
As more reports surface of breakthrough COVID cases, in and outside the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said it will change how breakthrough cases are reported, effective May 14.
According to a statement on the CDC’s website, the agency said to help “maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance” it will stop reporting weekly COVID breakthrough infections unless they result in hospitalization or death.
The news followed another change, announced late last month, in how PCR tests should be administered to the fully vaccinated.
Both changes will result in lower overall numbers of reports of breakthrough cases in the U.S.
A breakthrough case is recorded if a person tests positive for SARS-Cov-2 two weeks after receiving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot or completing the two-dose Moderna or Pfizer vaccination.
Why the changes matter
In April, the CDC issued new guidance to laboratories recommending reducing the RT-PCR CT value to 28 cycles — but only for those fully vaccinated individuals being tested for COVID.
In an RT-PCR test — the gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2 — RNA is extracted from the swab collected from the patient. It is then converted into DNA, which is then amplified.
CT, or cycle threshold, is a value that emerges during RT-PCR tests. A CT value refers to the number of cycles needed to amplify viral RNA to reach a detectable level.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a patient is considered positive for COVID if the CT value is below 35. In other words, if the virus is detectable after 35 cycles or earlier, then the patient is considered positive.
Here’s Why the Liberal Media Got Scalped With Their Rudy Giuliani Coverage
I mean this is par for the course now.
The establishment press cannot do their jobs—at all. It’s not just Trump now. It’s a cumulative effect. Whether it’s police shootings, hate crimes, sexual assaults, or Donald Trump, the list of topics where they’re just abjectly terrible at their jobs has reached a crisis point post-2016. The hate crime hoaxes are covered, but the spat of crimes against Asians are not. Why? It can’t possibly be because most of the folks who are assaulting Asians aren’t white, can it? That doesn’t fit the narrative that white people are evil, and Donald Trump put them up to it.
It doesn’t fit so ignore it. We know after the Duke Lacrosse and University of Virginia fiascos, both of which might be some of the worst examples of journalism in recent memory on this subject, that the press can’t cover rapes right. We know they all manufactured the lie about Russian collusion, so I’m am not shocked at all that their coverage of Rudy Giuliani’s residence being raid by the Feds had to undergo major surgery.
Katie wrote about it. The FBI paid the former New York City mayor a visit on April 28:
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at the New York City apartment of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani Wednesday. His office was also searched. FBI agents took documents and electronics reportedly related to his work and dealings with Ukraine businessmen in 2019 and before the 2020 presidential election against former Vice President Joe Biden. Federal investigators are allegedly looking for evidence Giuliani failed to register as a foreign agent.
US inflation numbers are understated, could be up to 20%
Soaring commodity and house prices are further proof that inflation is here to stay and it is much higher than the Federal Reserve wants Americans to believe, according to Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert.
Aside from the Fed’s money-printing, other reasons for spiking prices include de-globalization and growing tensions between the US and China, Max Keiser said in the latest episode of the Keiser Report.
“Because there’s some antagonism and because incomes in China have now matched those of the US, that ability to hide the money printing through the labor sink of China is gone. So now you have prices going up for real for stuff like lumber,” he said. “The Fed says it’s transitory… it’s categorically a lie.”
