Key among them is that no one is invulnerable to the coronavirus which doesn't pick and choose whom to infect based on political affiliation or status.
The reason is because that test result depends on many factors. One factor is the continuum of the disease. Was the sample collected when the disease is really taking a foothold ... and manifesting and viral replication is occurring? Another piece for people to remember is how the test is being done. It's what they call operator dependent.
"This concept about false negative and false positive can occur with any testing," Mathew said."Even if the test is initially negative, but we see that the patient is continuing to have certain signs or symptoms or maybe getting worse, we repeat those tests."The nation could see another crisis as fall settles in, Mathew said, because it brings with it flu season. It's also the time of year when other respiratory viruses ramp up.
He mocked Biden during Tuesday's presidential debate for wearing a mask and has refused to wear one himself when he's in close contact with other people. "And then we saw AIDS as evidence of the moral wrongness of the gay community and African communities and so that it was a judgment and plague upon them.
"As a physician, I would care for anyone who was sick, regardless of whether I agreed with them or not. And so I would hate to think of anyone using this moment to say it's a judgment on someone they disagree with any more than the 200,000 other Americans who died of this disease had a judgment cast upon them.
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