Researchers and clinicians who have ‘experimented’ with random mass testing for COVID-19 have made some pretty amazing – and amazingly depressing – discoveries. Yesterday, we shared a report about one sweeping antibody testing regime set up by researchers in Santa Clara County in California.
The study found that the estimated level of novel coronavirus penetration in the county was “50-80% higher” than what had been recorded.
If that isn’t enough to terrify every day trader who ratcheted up their exposure heading into the weekend, a news story about another surprising discovery – this time on the East Coast – has just come to our attention.
After a cluster of cases involving residents of a South Boston homeless shelter, Massachusetts public health officials tested every resident of the Pine Street shelter in Boston’s South End.
The results have garnered the attention of the CDC, which is “actively investigating the situation,” according to Boston 25 News.
The CDC is now “actively looking into” into universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter.
The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston’s South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.
Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.
“It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking,” said Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which provides medical care at the city’s shelters.
O’Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston’s homeless shelters.
The big takeaway, if you couldn’t tell, is that a pattern is developing here: When mass testing is conducting, a shocking number of new cases are being identified, and – what’s even more surprising – often none of them even show any symptoms/.
As we’ve noted several times already today, the theme of under-counting cases and deaths in institutions like nursing homes, prisons, homeless shelters and other settings has been especially prominent lately, as officials try to compensate for missed or undercounted cases and, in some countries, the veracity of the ‘official’ numbers is becoming a hot potato political issue.
The discovery of so many asymptomatic cases, many of which involve individuals who are indigent and presumably at high risk, has, according to the report, changed the way public health officials in Massachusetts are testing.
O’Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston’s homeless shelters.
“All the screening we were doing before this was based on whether you had a fever above 100.4 and whether you had symptoms,” said O’Connell. “How much of the COVID virus is being passed by people who don’t even know they have it?”
The 146 people who tested positive were immediately moved to two different temporary isolation facilities in Boston. According to O’Connell, only one of those patients needed hospital care, and many continue to show no symptoms.
But that’s not all: It’s also forces officials to confront the uncomfortable elephant in the room: what would “the curve” look like if we had the capacity for general testing?
“If we did universal testing among the general population, would these numbers be similar?” said Lyndia Downie, president and executive director at the Pine Street Inn. “I think there are no many asymptomatic people right now. We just don’t know. We don’t have enough data on universal testing to understand how many asymptomatic people are contagious.”
Hundreds of tests are now set to be conducted at additional Boston homeless shelters in the coming days.
“It tells you, you don’t know who’s at risk. You don’t know what you need to do to contain the virus if you don’t actually have the details or facts,” said Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of Health and Human Services.
What would be the takeaway here? Is the mortality rate in the US, which has lingered at a surprisingly high 5% according to the official numbers, in reality significantly lower? Or is there perhaps even more that we’re missing here?
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Soooo the numbers of people who would test positive and are asymptomatic is very high. I’d like a positive test please to legally spare me from the Gates/Fauci vaccine. This is bad news for Billy boy. Reminds me of when I brought my kids over to a house where a kid had chicken pox, so they would get it and not have to be exposed to the vaccine.
Covid-19 is so deadly that some of the most vunerable among us (poor nutrition, habits, living conditions,etc)
show no signs/symptoms. Hmmmmm…
# lock down for eternity to be saaaaafe
What do you think the immune system of a person who eats out of dumpsters might be compared to the average american cubicle flower?
Say what you like about the homeless, they’re a lot tougher than the normies.
Yep,
Why did our generation who rolled around in the dirt, rolled around with the dog, live outside every minute of day light, drank out of garden houses and such not have the level of allergies and gluten (lactose, whatever) intolerance that today’s kids have. Farmer is spot on.
HSF and Cow Doc,
While I agree that they are a hardy bunch all things considered, I think it’s a stretch to say they are tougher than the normies.
Taken from a nursing rag:
People who are homeless die 30 years before reaching the national average life expectancy (Crisis, 2011) and, compared with the general population, they also have a higher prevalence of infectious diseases, associated with malnutrition, long periods of homelessness and high use of medical services.
HIV, hepatitis C and tuberculosis are the most heavily studied infectious diseases among homeless populations. However, high rates of other infectious diseases – such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, foot problems and skin infections – have also been reported.
New evidence
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43 studies (four of which are from the UK), involving 59,736 homeless people, assessed the prevalence of TB, hepatitis C virus and HIV in this population between 1984 and 2012 (Beijer et al, 2012). Results showed that homeless people have a much higher likelihood of having one of these three diseases than the general population, although there was considerable variation between the studies.
In the United States, the prevalence of TB was at least 46 times greater in the homeless population than in the general population, and the prevalence of hepatitis C viral infection was increased approximately four-fold. In the UK, the prevalence of TB was at least 34 times greater in homeless people than in the general population, and the prevalence of hepatitis C viral infection was approximately 50 times greater.
HIV prevalence was typically 1-20 times higher in homeless people in the US than in the general population, but no studies were found in the UK. However, there was considerable heterogeneity between studies, suggesting the need for locally based studies to inform service planning and public health measures.
I’ll say it again; we still have no valid, reliable estimate of the overall incidence of this disease even though it would be a trivial matter to determine: test random samples of the population. And I’ve said, with the very high rate of transmission, the virus would spread to many if not most of the population in any community before the authorities were even aware of its presence (e.g., 5 million people will be exposed within two weeks with R0 of 3). The Boston findings confirm the latter statement and lend even greater emphasis to the question; why the hell haven’t they taken the incredibly simple step to estimate overall incidence? Because it would prove they shut down the economy for nothing? Because the answer would torpedo the actual reason for the shutdown; to divert public attention while the billionaires steal trillions of dollars?
The manufactured crisis would disappear and TPTB could screw us no longer.
The economy wasn’t shut down for nothing. The system was/is rigged. The virus was a convenient scapegoat to cover the inevitable collapse.
The propaganda now is to convince you with more bullshit platitudes that we’re all in this together and that together we can pull through this. Will you fall for the narrative that everything would have been great if only this virus didn’t rear it’s head?
What this means, Chicken Little, is that this Kung Flu is not nearly as bad as the models have predicted. It’s the damned Flu…..annnd I suspect a majority of the population has had it already.
I wasn’t calling any of the above Chicken Little. There are some on this site that have said millions were going to die.
Nothing has changed, and they’re not wrong.
So the solution for COVID
isn’t to wear a mask
as Chris Martenson suggests
but to lose yer job
and become homeless instead….
Don’t forget move to Boston.
But be sure to de-activate your pressure cookers.
The Conspiracy Theorist in me thinks perhaps the reason for little testing and virtually no Antigen testing is that if they were do, then the proto tyrants like the Hilary clone Governor in Michigan and that Mafiso guy in New York, New Jersey’s Bill of Rights, We don’t need no stinken bill of rights Governor and the BlackFace Baby killer douchbag in Virginia wouldn’t have as mush power over the masses, power that they sooo soo want to keep long enough that they get to keep it for ever,
And of course the money grubbing ass hats on Wall Street who are getting a bail out that we never said we would do again don’t want us to see behind the curtain to see that they were loosing control before this all began, remember the crashing overnight repo market in those long ago days of November and December, and it was just coincidentally a so so convenient way to get a nice bail out and QEXfinity, once again for the people who have been destroying our currency since the creature from Jeckel Island crawled out of the DC Swamp on Christmas Eve 1913.
Never mind it will transfer what wealth remains in the good ole USA into their pockets for one last blow out party in the Hamptons
But no that would never happen, they would not deliberately understate this virus in order to get us going to the Hunger Games version of North America sooner rather than later, with them in charge of course. Would they?
Did they develop symptoms later? This virus is detectable on the PCR test for 4 to 7 weeks, did they yield positive results on this test?
There is a reason why antibody tests (that are now coming into favor) are being downplayed and questioned by the fuckface talking heads. They show that one’s body was exposed and has produced antibodies in response – thus creating immunity. If it is shown that despite all the lockdowns, the vast majority of people were actually already exposed and only a small percentage died (way less than the annual flu – at least when ONLY the true Covid deaths are counted, not the artificially inflated bullshit numbers), the anger will get far greater and the hoax will be fully exposed. Funny how the fuckfaces never questioned one thing about all the tests that have yielded so many “positives.” And NO, there is not a kinder, less offensive term for these MSM lie-spreaders.
Mr. Liberty.
One more important item is if you have circulating antibodies to this virus YOU DON’T NEED A VACCINE AGAINST IT. I know you just forgot to mention that
If this was a true pandemic and if self quarantining and maintaining a social distance were sound practices, and if washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, and wearing a mask were vital to preventing infection by corona virus, then the homeless crisis would be solved because they would either lying in hospital beds or dead in the streets. The hospitals aren’t crammed full of homeless persons sick with Corona virus and the streets aren’t littered with their dead bodies because this isn’t a pandemic.
A pandemic-grade virus (especially one made in a lab) should have sickened or killed thousands of homeless all across America by now. But it hasn’t.