[OutsiderFan]

Stanford did test the performance of the tests, and did the analysis with both the manufacturers specifications and its own numbers.  I think my beef is that it is hard to be sure of the specificity when they only tested 300 patients without disease; it produces a 95% confidence interval of about 1%, which might not seem like much, but is the difference between the results they claim and pretty much all the positive tests being false positives.

BC

It’s worse. The researchers have flapped their gums in the WSJ editorial pages, claiming the seriousness of Covid-19 is overstated. They wrote these editorials not disclosing they were involved in the research. It looks like they may have designed a study to get the result they wanted.

Stanford should launch an investigation into what is going on here. Did some big monied interest with an agenda enrich these guys to run PR stunts that downplay the virus in some scheme to end shutdowns? I sure as heck wouldn’t rule it out.

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One more note on antibodies that I didn’t see until tonight.

Dr. Fauci today said it is true that antibodies do develop that create immunity against other viruses, but there is no evidence to demonstrate antibodies create immunity against this particular virus. 

No evidence.

[OutsiderFan]

Stanford did test the performance of the tests, and did the analysis with both the manufacturers specifications and its own numbers.  I think my beef is that it is hard to be sure of the specificity when they only tested 300 patients without disease; it produces a 95% confidence interval of about 1%, which might not seem like much, but is the difference between the results they claim and pretty much all the positive tests being false positives.

BC

It’s worse. The researchers have flapped their gums in the WSJ editorial pages, claiming the seriousness of Covid-19 is overstated. They wrote these editorials not disclosing they were involved in the research. It looks like they may have designed a study to get the result they wanted.

Stanford should launch an investigation into what is going on here. Did some big monied interest with an agenda enrich these guys to run PR stunts that downplay the virus in some scheme to end shutdowns? I sure as heck wouldn’t rule it out.

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One more note on antibodies that I didn’t see until tonight.

Dr. Fauci today said it is true that antibodies do develop that create immunity against other viruses, but there is no evidence to demonstrate antibodies create immunity against this particular virus. 

No evidence.