The increases in cases was vastly higher than increases in testing in recent resurgent states. It’s NOT just the testing!
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If you define a “case” broadly enough and allow labs (usually in Republican states) to report all tests as positive, this will happen. One person in a family can test positive and never show symptoms, and everyone in the family is quarantined and counted as a case. I’ve seen this happen. And even if the reported case shows symptoms, they are usually minor, as with a bad cold.
I’m disappointed in Dr. Fauci...the CDC has clear estimates of how widespread the disease is, through two rounds of seroprevalence studies from blood banks with the high estimate of NYC showing about 20% of the population with either active or past infection of covid 19. That was as of May 6th.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/commercial-lab-surveys.html
ANY number of tested cases as an estimate of how widespread the disease is, is a total misstatement of what the current science has to offer. Stanford U, the Ohio prison system testing, and a few other studies confirm the vastly understated number of infections. At least an order of magnitude, probably 20-30 times higher than the “tested positive” cases.
I heard Dr. Fauci testify that the Henry Ford HCQ results were clouded by steroid treatments that were concurrent, and then say UNNAMED studies did not have the same/similar results. But a Yale epidemiologist disagrees, yet the media only reports the people that they can discredit. We need a healthier skepticism of our media sources, our government bureaucrats, and politicians who have shadowy alliances that seem to pervade DC.
DK