{"id":51494,"date":"2020-02-29T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51494"},"modified":"2020-02-29T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T23:13:45","slug":"dont-test-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51494","title":{"rendered":"“Don’t Test, Don’t Tell!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Don’t Test, Don’t Tell!”<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I believe that a healthy society should not have only one voice.<\/p>– Li Wenliang, Wuhan physician, born October 12, 1986, died February 7, 2020.<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Last night, I received a Twitter DM that included screenshots of an email that went out to staff at the UC Davis Medical Center. After checking for authenticity, I posted the screenshots in a tweet of my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s when, as the kids would say, it blew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I want to highlight a couple of quotes from this email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the patient did not fit the existing CDC criteria for COVID-19, a test was not immediately administered. UC Davis Health does not control the testing process.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The facts here are pretty clear. Patient comes in from another hospital on Wednesday, Feb. 19 \u2013 this is one week ago<\/em> \u2013 already intubated and on a ventilator, and the doctors at UC Davis \u2013 who have treated other COVID-19 cases<\/em> \u2013 IMMEDIATELY<\/em>suspect COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the CDC refuses <\/em>to test for COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because it didn\u2019t fit their \u201ccriteria\u201d for testing. They didn\u2019t know for sure<\/em> that the patient was in mainland China within the past 14 days, and they didn\u2019t know for sure<\/em> that the patient was in close contact with another confirmed case, so BY DEFINITION this patient can\u2019t possibly have COVID-19. No test for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is \u201cDon\u2019t Test, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d<\/em> and it is the single most incompetent, corrupt public health policy of my lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s happening all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, take a look at yesterday\u2019s press conference from Nassau County, Long Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WATCH: Nassau County Executive Curran and Health Commissioner Eisenstein provide updates and guidance on #coronavirus<\/a>.https:\/\/www.pscp.tv\/w\/cSaiRDFyYWpab1JxTGxZRXp8MXpxS1Zsbk5PekxKQuBQR5kXfNMJdTV1mFA7sEnBdBwEuSETqvhGEFlPBVjF?t=7s\u00a0\u2026<\/a>Eyewitness News @ABC7NYCoronavirus Concern: Nassau County issues advisorypscp.tv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Don’t Test, Don’t Tell!” I believe that a healthy society should not have only one voice. – Li Wenliang, Wuhan physician, born October 12, 1986, died February 7, 2020. Last night, I received a Twitter DM that included screenshots of an email that went out to staff at the UC Davis Medical Center. After checking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10321,119,121,28817,29011,29097,827],"class_list":["post-51494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-ben-hunt","tag-cdc","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-epsilontheory-com","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51495,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494\/revisions\/51495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}