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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
All this means is that people can take a covid test and if they have influenza the test will come back positive for influenza, where as before it would have just come back negative for Covid.
The point is this:
Influenza and Covid are not distinguishable when you walk into your doctors room.
He has to make a test.
In germany, while we miticulously counted every covid test done, the influenza ones are not recorded at all. I couldnt find any number on the amount of influenza tests being done and their corresponding positive rates.
So considering the pandemic, its coverage and corresponding psychological effects, I am to assume that for the most parts, most doctors simply did a corona-test (especially considering the overwhelming workload for laboratories, they virtually cant have made any significant amount of influenza tests).
Pcr-tests are very specific, you can get them wrong easily, they can not detect disease, only viral load, viral-load without symptoms means no illness ((and no transmission, according to the WHO) and even with the supposed viral-load there are a bunch of problems in terms of it actually being there due to fundamental properties of life/biology and the sensitivy of said tests).
The first pcr-test was created and published in a matter of hours/days, by a man who has heavy conflicts of interest (being the owner of the paper he published, being financially invested in the company producing the tests), based on a computer-model. It came with a suggestion of a 45-ct, which is about double what you usually use.
So we use a test that is fundamentally not suited to detect illness, to detect illness, a supposed illness that is completely different than one we know, eventho it is virtually the same, unless you use said test to determine illness.