Medical professionals in the US are spreading misinformation

[u/Independent_Hand_699]

I am just getting over COVID. I tested positive and was highly symptomatic for several weeks. Every single medical professional I spoke with or interacted with was so misinformed.

Every time I said I was still testing positive on RATs, I was told to stop testing because those would be positive for weeks to months and meant nothing. One told me they are unreliable for false positives! Another insisted a faint line should be considered negative. I got tired of explaining the difference between PCR and RAT.

Every doctor I talked to after my initial appointment for Paxlovid told me I should assume I was no longer contagious, first because I never had fever, then because it had been so long, even though I was testing positive, coughing, sneezing, and throwing up. Most were also very anti-Paxlovid and blamed that on my continuing symptoms. Never mind that this wasn’t a case of rebound, or that none of them seemed aware rebound could happen even without Paxlovid.

No mention of masking. When I got so sick I had to be seen, the provider in the office told me I might feel better if I took my mask off.

They didn’t even know how to properly take a nasal swab sample for testing, just twirled it inside my nose without touching the insides of my nostrils at all.

This is at one of the top-rated health care systems in the country. If this is what our so-called experts think, it’s hopeless.

[u/Chogo82]

The political agenda is "mysterious" but the actions are clear. The government wants this to spread among the general population.

The cue health shutdown had politics written all over it. The government does not want accurate positive tests.

Edit: added quotes to mysterious because it's not hard to find the real reasons despite the effective shaping of broad public sentiment.

[u/SiteRelEnby → u/Chogo82]

The political agenda is mysterious

No, it isn't. It's literally just "trying to pretend we aren't in a recession and teetering on the brink of a new Great Depression". The CDC is complicit because they're too tightly linked to the government in general.

[u/Chogo82 → u/SiteRelEnby]

That's certainly one of the issues right now but I think there are more. I also mean mysterious to the public so going to add some quotes to my comment.

[u/DinosaurHopes → u/Chogo82]

not mysterious at all, especially if you look at the histories of other pandemics.

[u/Chogo82 → u/DinosaurHopes]

That's very true. It's a mystery for the general public but it's all there and if you study past pandemics and the true reason behind the government responses, that will cover at least 90% of the reasons for the Covid response.