Topic: Dhhs

The Department of Health and Human Services has advised hundreds of federal workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco to work from home due to dangerous conditions and open-air drug use. A BBC report describes the Soma district as overrun with drug paraphernalia and unconscious individuals. The hosts criticize the reporting for suggesting that tent encampments are "unusual" when they are a persistent feature of the city.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed using a PCR test cycle threshold of 37 to signify a positive COVID-19 case. Critics argue that any threshold over 35 results in excessive false positives and picks up viral debris rather than active infections. Lab technicians are accused of being complicit in inflating case numbers by using these high cycle counts to meet political or institutional demands for "positives."