Posted on 08/07/2020 6:15:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As Americans entered summer with a glimmer of hope that COVID-19 might recede, those hopes were quickly dashed after a rapid resurgence of the virus in Sun Belt states. Now approaching midsummer, the numbers continue to surge across the South and Western regions of the United States.
Florida and Texas, two of the hardest-hit states besides California and New York, have broken record numbers of cases in the last several weeks. Florida recorded an all-time high of about 15,200 cases in a single day July 11.
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First off, Fauci is not an expert, and look at Dewine yesterday taking two tests and one was positive and one negative. The numbers are all BS.
Government is not good at doing stuff with a few exceptions. Just wait for mail out and mail in voting if you want to see screwy numbers off by 20%.
A “Case” does NOT mean they are Sick!!! 99.8% of ALL CASES will have Mild to NO Symptoms.
I dunno. Ask Mike DeWine.
Two friends of daughter in Florida, registered to be tested.
Line was too long....they left and were never tested.
Received results......positive.
Exactly. The report of new cases can be interpreted as much as good news as bad, if there are no symptoms or very few symptoms.
How many of those “coronavirus” deaths earlier in the spring were typical flu deaths that occur every year? Of course the Wuhan Flu numbers are being manipulated, and of course for political purposes. If the calendar said 2019 none of this would be happening.
If a significant number of antibody tests are included in the current aggregate of “positive” cases, this might convey a very different picture of the pandemic’s severity. For this reason, the data from these two tests should be differentiated, but until recently, this was still not being widely done.It is shocking that even the vaunted CDC failed to make this distinction and lumped all the testing into one reported total. That makes the number of cases total bullscat, meaningless, and useless for public policy making.A May expose by The Atlantic revealed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a consistent differentiation was not being made between these two independent tests, with the “positive” results being aggregated and reported back to state officials as homogenous totals. It appears that now most states have begun to differentiate, with the CDC regularly adding to its list of states making this distinction. The lack of uniformity in consolidating this data calls into question the uptick in “positive” tests and its potential effects in skewing the numbers and misinforming the public.
Months ago the MSM was screaming for testing that should have been the tell to not test.
The head nurse at our local hospital took ten test swabs strait from their container into their submission container. When they were sent for test, all ten came back positive.
Cases are irrelevant and meant to scare old folks.
The number to watch is daily hospitalizations and ICU count. Most people hospitalized spend only one day in the hospital.
Every on that leaves a name is called positive. If you are tested positive today and again tested positive tomorrow that is two positives.
Numbers don’t lie bureaucrats do.
A friend recently asked me when I think "life will be back to normal." I told him "November 4, the day after the election."
My aunt tested positive for MRSA when admitted to the local hospital in 2010.
She wasn’t sick because of it.
Three things I am convinced we don’t know:
How many people have (or have had) the virus.
How many people get seriously sick from the virus.
How many people have died strictly due to the virus.
And this from the country that has probably the best reporting in the world. So who really believes the numbers we’re getting from other countries?
If I breath the air of 250 people in front of me, I’m more likely to test positive.
This is a misleading headline. This story might have been of value if it was printed in July. The July surge has already happened, and trending cases are now headed down. This article is dated Aug 7, 2020.
In the article “Florida recorded an all-time high of about 15,200 cases in a single day July 11.” Is used to back the headline.
The author states: “Widespread inconsistencies and convolution among data and laboratory tracking appears to be significantly contributing to possible misinformation”.
Is it inconsistence to state “Experts say COVID-19 cases are surging” in an article dated Aug 7, 2020, when the experts were making statement in July on July data? The new infection rate is decreasing as of Aug 7th.
Consequences of Bad Report
This article title will cause some people to believe the cases are surging when the article was referring to last month: new cases are decreasing now. Those misinform people will be running around today crying new cases are climbing. Bad reporting can cause panic.
Summary: Good article but it could be misleading because of the mixing message within the article. The very thing the author was complaining about.
I planned on ordering a new 2020 Corvette and pay cash but the bank said I could not use Covid 19 Case Counting methods for money.
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