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posted by martyb on Sunday May 17 2020, @04:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-shocked,-shocked-I-say dept.

U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower:

The U.S. government proposed manipulating information about whether N95 masks worked to fight the spread of coronavirus in the general public, according to Dr. Richard Bright, a whistleblower who testified publicly for the first time on Thursday. The deception was an effort to avoid shortages and keep masks available for U.S. health care workers, but likely had a ripple effect throughout the country, leaving many people to believe that all masks are useless or even harmful during a pandemic. Bright's testimony is the first confirmation from a high-ranking official that the U.S. government actively sought to distribute incorrect information about N95 masks during the covid-19 pandemic.

Dr. Bright told the House Subcommittee on Health on Thursday about his attempts to warn others in the Department of Health and Human Services about the pending shortage of masks in January and early February, just as the novel coronavirus was spreading outside of China. Bright said that officials at the meeting simply said they would change the recommendations put out by the CDC to discourage the general public from buying masks.

"I indicated we know there will be a critical shortage of these supplies. We need to do something to ramp up production," Dr. Bright, the former top vaccine specialist at HHS, said of a meeting with HHS officials on February 7.

"They indicated if we notice there is a shortage, that we will simply change the CDC guidelines to better inform people who should not be wearing those masks, so that would save those masks for our health care workers," Dr. Bright testified.

"My response was, 'I can not believe you can sit and say that with a straight face'," Bright said. "That was absurd."

[...] Dr. Bright's entire 6-hour testimony is available on YouTube, and it's quite damning.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Rich on Sunday May 17 2020, @05:05PM (1 child)

    by Rich (945) on Sunday May 17 2020, @05:05PM (#995407) Journal

    I'm as much armchair virologist as anyone here (and haven't even studied all of Prof. Drosten's "lectures" diligently). As I got it, the virus surface is fat-like, but it can dry out. Therefore detergents (tensids) instantly dissolve it, but other than that, it seems to prefer to be in a fluid. Drosten repeatedly discerned between "active virus" and "identifiable RNA", because dead virus RNA will PCR-test postive. I suggest you go for the source (deepl is a really good translator) and have a look for yourself. ;) I a recent session he estimated transfer at around 45% aerosol (breathing), 45% droplet (cough), 10% others (smear...), and said that surface transmission is rather unlikely. You'd be better off to ventilate well than to overdo washing your hands.

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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Monday May 18 2020, @12:25AM

    by Username (4557) on Monday May 18 2020, @12:25AM (#995531)

    Sounds like a way to make a flu "vaccine" like approach. If they could use some body safe detergent to partially dissolve the virus, then inject into a patient to generate an autoimmune response to build up antibodies against it. Too bad that cannot be asked otherwise the media will say they're telling people to inject Lysol into their bodies.

    I wonder if this was retracted because it was faked, or because it contradicted the WHO or CDC position.

    I cannot find the talking point on either of their sites, but they are trying their best to link it to climate change which is clogging up the results for moisture or humidity and covid19. This is basically the talking point: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-humidity-may-affect-covid-19-outcome#How-dry-air-affects-immunity,-viral-spread [medicalnewstoday.com]