In timing that seemed quintessentially “quid-pro Joe,” the WHO suddenly updated its vaccine test guidelines just as the new American president signed an executive order to rejoin the organization that former president Donald Trump abandoned.
The WHO’s new directives advised laboratories that a positive PCR test will no longer be considered by itself enough to determine a case of COVID. The new criteria are that an asymptomatic person who tests positive via a PCR test would require additional testing to qualify as a case: “Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different [test].”
They now advise that PCR tests, which have been used across the U.S. and elsewhere to detect coronavirus infections, are only to be considered an “aid for diagnosis” as opposed to proof of infection:
“Health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information.”
TRENDPOST: The former president had removed the U.S. from association with and funding of the WHO due in part to the organization’s vouching for China’s narrative concerning the virus’s origin and outbreak in that country, which Trump disagreed with. The WHO’s new changes will reduce the tally of “cases” mainstream media obsessively cites and politicians have used to shut down states and to disparage the efforts of the Trump administration to fight the virus.
Indeed, yesterday, California, the first state in America to lock down, announced plans to lift the stay-at-home order for all counties because COVID-19 cases are, according to the new WHO protocol, spreading at a slower rate across the state.
