Since day one, every time a thread came up about the increasing number of cases, I always started with this single comment: Define “case”.
βIn epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) β sometimes called case fatality risk or disease lethality β is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of symptomatic people diagnosed with the disease.β
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A symptomless, or even mildly symptomatic positive swab is not a case. Never, in recorded history, has this been true. However, now we have an almost unquestioned acceptance that a positive swab represents a case of COVID.