This might be wrong (I might have mis-remembered it), but I thought I saw something a couple weeks ago, that said that for every 1 positive COVID-19 test, the CDC adds 15 cases, on the assumption that there are more positives out there, just not enough testing to find them all.
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This might be wrong (I might have mis-remembered it), but I thought I saw something a couple weeks ago, that said that for every 1 positive COVID-19 test, the CDC adds 15 cases, on the assumption that there are more positives out there, just not enough testing to find them all.
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They don’t add 15, they add however many people the supposed positive person may have been around. Could be more. And there’s MOAR! I posted this yesterday, and I forgot to add that often a positive person is tested several times until negative, and each test is a counted as a “case”:
A few weeks ago it was explained that CDC offiically changed the reporting of “cases”.
“Cases” include “probables/presumptive” which means any contacts a positive test person had over the last week or whatever. Whether they have symptoms or not. Even a presumptive’s (not tested or not positive) contacts can be counted.
Also included apparently are those with antibodies showing they had it earlier, very possibly with no/minimal symptoms.
Add to that people who don’t even show up for appointments for testing are given positive results, a lot of people reporting this.
And add to that that anyone with “viral particles” (however they acquired them) cand test positve.
And the final crapola is many of the tests give false positives. I’ve read of cases where nurse and doctors have sent in tests with swabs dipped in saline, or no swabs at all. Results? POSITIVE.
The entire edifice is rotten. The CDC also never says how many “cases” are actually sick or in hospitals.
I just read today--in the story about Florida's "94 percent infection rate" that turned out to be 6 percent--that there indeed have been strange methods of enumeration going on in the offices of our Health Lords:
In Florida, they'd been counting every contact made by someone who tested positive as a "Corona case." No kidding. Whether or not the contact ever got sick. And their definition of testing positive for WuFlu was the presence of antibodies against it. Which most people in the country probably now have from random contacts of their own--which is a good thing.
And . . . they'd been testing many of the same people multiple times. If someone tested positive for the antibodies--which doesn't mean he's sick, or that he can infect anyone else--he was counted as a "new case" each time he was tested! That's how you make 5 or 100 cases out of 1, or out of none.
Close contacts of positives are considered probable cases, and at least some state and local governments have been including probable cases in the new case counts.
Who the heck knows what the damn CDC is doing.