Birx/Lipkin - No conclusion of retrovirus relationship to disease

W. Ian Lipkin - 2013 “We found retroviruses in 85 percent of the sample pools…. neither he nor we have concluded that there is a relationship to disease.”
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(On TheHighwire.com, June 13, 2024):
CNN Host: What is the level of concern right now about that potentially becoming a pandemic?
Deborah Birx: I'm really concerned because we're making the same mistakes today that we made with COVID. We should be testing every cow weekly. If you can do pull PCR, we have the technology we could be pool testing every dairy worker. I do believe that there's undetected cases in humans, because we're once again only tracking people with with symptoms.
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(Excerpt from Plague of Corruption, Introduction by Dr Judy Mikovits, Page XXIX)
"In September of 2013, Dr. Ian Lipkin, the man who the previous year had supposedly debunked our findings of a retroviral connection to ME/ CFS, held an unusual public conference call.
He had done further research with Dr. Jose Montoya of Stanford University. Using a cohort of patients very similar to the one we used for the Science paper (and the very cohort excluded from the 2012 study by Tony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Lipkin said:
“We found retroviruses in 85 percent of the sample pools. Again, it is very difficult at this point to know whether or not this is clinically significant. And given the previous experience with retroviruses in chronic fatigue, I am going to be very clear in telling you, although I am reporting this as present in Professor Montoya’s samples, neither he nor we have concluded that there is a relationship to disease.”
Got it? Even though he found retroviruses in 85 percent of the samples of the sick patients, and in only 6 percent of the controls, he can’t figure out if it means anything. And more shockingly, they’re not going to do any further investigation.
This is the nightmare of censored and “dangerous” science today. There are no data because the appropriate studies are forbidden and censored."