If traveling by air, check if your airline requires any health information, test results, or other documents. So if the specificity is 95% that means that the false positive rate is 5%. Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for COVID-19, the Portugal national team has confirmed. They never called/wrote back to initiate dentist appointments as they said they would. [ MORE: How to watch PL in the USA] Ronaldo, 35, was the only player to test positive for COVID … Travel may increase your chance of getting and spreading COVID-19. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. are doing and should stop doing as soon as possible see this great article from a BMJ editor: "Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science" (https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425). You might feel well and not have any symptoms, but you can be contagious without symptoms and can spread the virus to others. Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. I never used Germano Sousa for blood tests and such; but they were my dentist clinic (near ALAMEDA metro station)up to beginning of March 2020. why are we not treating this like every other disease previously? Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities”. Note: Javascript is disabled or is not supported by your browser. However, importantly, no data suggests that detection of low levels of viral RNA by RT-PCR equates with infectivity unless infectious virus particles have been confirmed with laboratory culture based methods. Les vols en Transit entre le Portugal et d'autres destinations ne seront autorisés que pour les voyages essentiels. 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For more information about this message, please visit this page: Level 4: Very High Level of COVID-19 in Portugal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week, I reported on a landmark ruling from Portugal, where a court had ruled against a governmental health authority that had illegally confined four people to a hotel this summer. Clinicians should obtain a detailed travel history for patients with symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Please also specify which peer reviewed paper the judges have failed to consider in coming to their outcome or are you suggesting people and judges should simply use your comment as a test of veracity. Portugal, with a population of about 10 million people, has reported 300,462 coronavirus cases, with 4,577 deaths. They have a lot more information on how currently "the science" used as excuse by politicians and journalists is really not doing anybody any favours at all! Do not travel if your test result is positive; immediately isolate yourself, and follow public health recommendations. https://humansarefree.com/2020/11/bombshell-fauci-states-covid-test-has-fatal-flaw.html And we have some brilliant scientits here. Too busy making the big buck on covid-19 testing. With the country assailed daily by news of rising case numbers, judges in Lisbon have described the reliability of tests being rolled out in their tens of thousands as “more than debatable”. PCR tests ("polymerase chain reaction") are the most widely used diagnostic method in most countries to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 precisely because they are the most accurate in identifying the virus. INFO (seulement pour les Açores et Madère) : le test Covid est obligatoire avant le départ. Those who scream the loudest". News website Observador said Health Minister Marta Temido and Health Secretary Antonio Sales were in isolation while they waited for coronavirus test results. 4. Pittsburgh based GNC is now offering an at-home COVID-19 test kit, from a company called 1health. newsdesk@theportugalnews.com, © 2020 The Portugal News - Established 1977 Of course the scietntists and medical professionals who are working with pharmecutal companies and such will have a vested interest in keeping this plandemic alive, obviously they will fight back...but they will loose. " When low pretest probability exists, positive results should be interpreted with caution and a second specimen tested for confirmation. More Snakes in this article than a bag of Vipers. Portugal Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline. Page 2: There is No pandemic! FILE PHOTO: A health worker at a drive-thru coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing center in Lisbon, Portugal, March 26, 2020. If no, we can’t be sure if there’s none or just very little”. The judges – Margarida Ramos de Almeida and Ana Paramés – went to great pains to assess whether or not there were indeed legal grounds for the tourists’ enforced confinement. It's enough just to look at the numbers to understand why that is utterly stupid.). In the case of the Públicio article: are they stating something "against" themselves or are they trying to avoid loss of face? Response to Phillip A who claims to have worked on PCR. +351 282 341 201, sales@theportugalnews.com 6. The need to show a negative coronavirus test on arriving or returning to European destinations is a growing trend, even sometimes for residents. It isn’t able to say for sure if that person is infectious. And finally, to get a feeling for what Públicio and other publications and their authors (plus the organization(s) they represent!) Not if you’re travelling from the UK to mainland Portugal. The "scientists" are lying. Another great resource is the document "PCR-based COVID testing has failed and is not a proper basis to lockdown the nation, let alone decide on tiers for restrictions - Briefing paper for MPs – 26 th November 2020" (https://lockdownsceptics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MP-briefing-26-Nov-2020.pdf). From above-mentioned material, we can at least say he is lying by saying that . “The only element that appears in the proven facts is the performance of RT-PCR tests, one of which presented a positive result in relation to one of the applicants”, reads the document. Get tested with a viral test 1–3 days before your trip, keep a copy of your results with you during travel. If there’s a result, the person is or was infected. Airports, bus stations, train stations, and rest stops are all places travelers can be exposed to the virus. In Norway the hospitals are using "No ore than 40 Cycles" wich we found out after trying to get an answer for months. The Coronavirus material must be subject to rigorous science and if infections cause no symptoms. If you had a known exposure to COVID-19 while traveling. If you don't get tested, it's safest to stay home for 10 days after travel. As opposed to the ridiculous 97%. Well done Judges! 5. You might be prevented from returning to the United States as scheduled. Key Information for Travelers to Portugal. According to the investigation, this only happens if the cycle threshold is higher than 35 "as it happens in most laboratories in the USA and Europe", reads the judgment. +351 282 341 100 For people interested in the background to the PCR criticism, see for instance "Scientist Demands Retraction of Original PCR Study" (https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/11/26/#scientist-demands-retraction-of-original-pcr-study) for a quick introduction to the specific form of PCR test (and why it is such a bad test!). CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) PCR Diagnostic Panel (July 13, 2020) Delay travel if you are waiting for test results, test positive, are sick, or if you have been around someone with COVID-19 in the past 14 days. To Germano de Sousa clinic administrators, i have to quote s.o. The test for Covid-19 must be scheduled with a consultation and the results will be available in up to 72 hours. Here specificity means the ratio of *true* negatives. However, passengers will be subject to health screening on arrival at … If you travel, take steps before, during, and after travel to keep yourself and others from getting COVID-19. Attention : Toute personne testée positive au Covid-19 durant son séjour au Portugal pourra être immédiatement hospitalisée ou placée en confinement strict (en l’absence d’alternative, dans un hôtel réquisitionné par les autorités), jusqu’à l’obtention d’un test avec résultat négatif. CDC is not responsible for Section 508 compliance (accessibility) on other federal or private website. He failed to show what other "scientific evidence" of the high capacity of the virus to spread from “positive” cases to less than 25 cycles. (Which no sane person would believe even without this. This pandemic was created, along with the global warming Greta thurnberg scam, as part of the plan by globalists and bankers to bring down the western economy and financial system, the plan is total enslavement of human race by a bunch of globalist furthers in UN WEF WHO EUSSR under the pretext of a great reset. People are acting out of Pure Self Interest in times of fear and distrust. The fact that it is one of the most widely used tool tells nothing about its accuracy. COVID. Read this week's issue online exactly as it appears in print. Travelers should avoid all travel to Portugal. If the 'laboratories' are those testing Covid, then he has GREAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST which inevitably makes his claims BIASED. It just tells us that culture raised from the sample obtained by way of running cycle threshold of more than 25 or that is more than 8 days old(even if obtained via CT of less than 25) cannot infect cells. The question is why would any medical expert want to criticise the examination of the validity of the information they are expecting the public to adhere to comply with. This is a technique that amplifies the virus's genetic material in successive cycles - with each cycle the material doubles. Even if you test negative, stay home for the full 7 days. For this reason, some items on this page will be unavailable. CDC twenty four seven. They never did. Linking to a non-federal website does not constitute an endorsement by CDC or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the website. The results for … “The statement is false”, Vasco Barreto, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Chronic Diseases (Cedoc) of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa told Público, who added that he believed the judges acted “irresponsibly”. WEll some scientists want to keep their research money, even the CDC has said the PRC do not diagnose any illness and they also state there is no evidence so called SAR2 causing a disease called covid 19, To have a disease one needs to have symptoms that can be diagnosed, that is the simplest of medicine, Wow! Follow entry requirements or restrictions at your destination which might include testing, quarantine, and providing contact information. Portugal has today recorded the highest number of daily deaths from Covid-19, accounting for 91 more deaths in the last 24 hours and a further 3,996 new cases of infection, according to the bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health ( DGS). Hear: " RT-PCR assays in the UK have analytical sensitivity and specificity of greater than 95%" Examining the repercussions of Ronaldo's positive Covid-19 test (1:07) The news of Cristiano Ronaldo testing positive for Covid-19 rocked the football world on Tuesday. If you must travel, talk to your doctor ahead of travel, especially if you are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19. The initial decision, which was made on 11 November, related to an appeal by the Regional Health Administration of the Azores, following a request for habeas corpus - immediate release - of four German citizens who had been forced by the health authority to comply with isolation for 14 days in the hotel room. By Peter Shepherd from Lisbon on 02-12-2020 05:09 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. If yes, we how much? Graca Freitas, 63, whose daily updates on the pandemic have made her a familiar face to the Portuguese public, tested positive on Tuesday and is in isolation, the … According to the process: “There is no evidence that this diagnosis was actually carried out by a professional qualified under the Law and who had acted in accordance with good medical practices”. PCR tests have a result that answers “Could we detect genetic material in the sample? They had done so because one of the people had tested positive for Covid in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test – but the court had found the test fundamentally flawed and basically inadmissible. The other study cited in the judgement was Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates, whose results were published by Oxford Academic in late September. Check with your destination's Office of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Health or the US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Country Information page for details about entry requirements and restrictions for arriving travelers. This is indicated in a scientific article that is cited in the judgment, but that has been read “completely wrong” by the magistrates, according to Germano de Sousa, former President of the Ordem dos Médicos and owner of a network of laboratories. It must be understood you are someone who is posting and not positing evidence in a court of law which has been subject to examination and scrutiny which you seek to dispute with a commen. “Thus, with so many scientific doubts, expressed by experts in the field, which are the ones that matter here, as to the reliability of such tests, ignoring the parameters of their performance and there being no diagnosis made by a doctor, in the sense of existence of infection and risk, it would never be possible for this court to determine that C ... had the SARS-CoV-2 virus, nor that A., B ... and D ... had high risk exposure,” concluded the judgement in relation to the case which has ultimately calls into question the reliability of the tests. • “Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms”. Whenever someone says something is true/untrue you should always wonder "Is the statement made by that person in that person's interest or not?" In the study cited, the relationship between the ability of the samples collected to infect cells and the number of cycles required to obtain a “positive” result was tested. Finally the facts are comming to light! This is because after our body controls the infection there are fragments of the virus's genetic material that persist and decrease over days, when the individual no longer poses a danger to others, ”explains Vasco Barreto. The judges quoted a paper published in The Lancet by Elena Surkova, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy and Francis Drobniewski, which stated: “Any diagnostic test result should be interpreted in the context of the pretest probability of disease. 12 Comments While the court has deemed the test to be unreliable, medical experts have hit back against these claims, stating the judges have acted “irresponsibly” in their ruling. Au 23 novembre, novembre plus de 260 758 cas d'infections et 3897 décès liés au Covid-19 ont été recensés. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease. The study, i.e., "Correlation Between 3790..." is silent on the matter of whether RT-PCR is reliable or not. 2. A viewer recovering from COVID … If you suspect that a traveler has COVID-19, see Information for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19) for information on evaluating, reporting, clinical care guidance, and infection control. Ronaldo tests positive for coronavirus and will miss Portugal's game against Sweden. These acts are reserved for the exclusive competence of a doctor. So why are they still putting millions of people in Portugal and elsewhere into lockdown? Ronaldo is asymptomatic and in isolation away from Portugal's national team. The quote in the subtitle is false. Travel may increase your chance of getting and spreading COVID-19. Cristiano Ronaldo tested positive for COVID-19, the Portuguese Federation announced on Tuesday. Here in Croatia too they are confirming that, as well as explaining how. From 15 December, all passengers arriving from outside of these countries must show proof of a negative Covid-19 test (in English, French, ... Portugal—domestic travel allowed over Christmas . Vasco Barreto's claim is very weak. Will I have to take a Covid-19 PCR test? For COVID 19, the pretest probability assessment includes symptoms, previous medical history of COVID-19 or presence of antibodies, any potential exposure to COVID-19, and likelihood of an alternative diagnosis. It seems that the medical experts objecting to the Lisbon Court of Appeal Judgment are actually saying their information cannot withstand any evidential examination or testing by medical and science experts to be established for accuracy or truth. Voir plus d'informations ci-dessous. This is exactly the problem in which Coronavirus (covid19) material is presently disseminated by the media and Government and is often more likely to induce confusion and panic rather than information. Page 38 Sign up now for a chance to win €100 of Amazon vouchers! The linked Lancet article doesn't say *anywhere* that the false positive rate is 97% (which is a ridiculous claim anyway). Many Portuguese are scheduling tests for Covid-19 on the days before Christmas to be able to be with their families, according to Unilabs Portugal, which for 22 December alone has 1,500 appointments confirmed. It must not be forgotten that covid19 infections are being equated with the possibility of other infections and quarantine, if the tests are remotely false let alone by 97%, such actions are not only reckless and irresponsible, the disproprortionate nature should also be examined as the measures against society are without complete justification. Saving Lives, Protecting People, increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19, US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Country Information page, Information for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19), Know When to Delay Your Travel to Avoid Spreading COVID-19, How CDC Determines the Level of a Destination’s COVID-19 Travel Health Notice, US Department of State: Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ), Obtención de atención médica en el extranjero, Zika: A CDC Guide for Travelers infographic, Guidelines for US Citizens and Residents Living in Areas with Zika, Introduction to Travel Health & the CDC Yellow Book. 3. “Positive results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The PCR test *is* able to determine that a positive result corresponds, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Page 39 If you get sick with COVID-19 or test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 while abroad, you might not be permitted to return to the United States until you can end isolation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. He failed to give otherwise evidence. Caption: WLOS. If you don't get tested, it's safest to stay home for 10 days. • “This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens”. COVID-19 testing involves analyzing samples to assess the current or past presence of SARS-CoV-2.The two main branches detect either the presence of the virus or of antibodies produced in response to infection. Many people are scheduling tests for Covid-19 on the days before Christmas to be able to be with their families. Now, from reading the article, the judges conclude that “the probability of a person receiving a false positive is 97% or higher”. If you are a visitor to Portugal you can receive the test for Covid-19 (RT-PCR) shortly after arrival, before departure or at any time, in one of the hospitals and clinics included in the Portugal Health Passport, all of which provide you personalized support in your language. Follow the Money. If the Ct value is *high*, it means little material and a *low* chance of infectiveness. “PCR tests have a specificity and sensitivity greater than 95%. That is, in the overwhelming majority of cases they detect the virus that causes covid-19 ”. Find out more about When to Delay Travel. “The proportion of samples that were no longer able to infect cells maintained in culture in the laboratory increased with the increase in the number of cycles required to obtain a positive signal. Dans ces conditions, l’isolement pourra durer de quelques jours à plusieurs semaines. Please can you specify exactly who you worked for and in which capacity because you are very vague about your medical and scientific credentials and experience in contrast to this global team https://www.rt.com/op-ed/508383-fatal-flaws-covid-test/ and to The Great Barrington Declaration scientists. The paper continues: “Prolonged viral RNA shedding, which is known to last for weeks after recovery, can be a potential reason for positive swab tests in those previously exposed to SARS-CoV-2. https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download If you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 during travel, you might be quarantined and not be permitted to return to the United States until your quarantine is lifted. If you travel, take the following steps to protect yourself and others from COVID-19: Get tested with a viral test 1–3 days before traveling back to the United States. The numbers of covid infections are falsely inflated, by use of a fraudulent testing kit, its fraud on a biblical scale! I am not concerned about having flu like symptoms which will result in no harm to me at all and unless you can prove that an asymptomatic person infects others with documented scientific peer reviewed studies, I believe this is disinformation. Travelers should avoid all travel to Portugal. How do I view different file formats (PDF, DOC, PPT, MPEG) on this site? None of the tourists showed any symptoms of Covid-19, but were held in isolation in their hotel for more than 10 days. Do not travel if you are waiting for test results, test positive, or are sick.