A positive test.
Which might be a false positive
“A positive test.”
Nope. The tests are so inaccurate as to be useless.
Docs rue out everything else through other testing means and conclude covid if the symptoms appear to fit.
What gets tested to come back as positive ?
I think it could be more than positive tests. In some places, you could have the symptoms and are “presumed” to have CoVid because you can’t get tested very quickly, and by the time the result is back, the quarantine time is finished. This happened to someone who works with my husband (virtually).
He had a sore throat and a cough, and a mild fever. The tests in his area were backed up for nearly 2 weeks. The doctor told him that he was “presumed “ to have CoVid, and to stay home from work. He wrote him a doctors note that said he had to quarantine for 2 weeks before he could go back to his facility, plus remain fever free for at least 24 hours if it got worse late in the cycle. This was late summer in Texas.
The guy could work virtually from home once he was better, which was about a week, but they wouldn’t allow him into the facility until his quarantine period was over. He was reported to the state health board as having CoVid, and his facility was notified by them (and him, too).
So you don’t even have to have a positive test result to be a “case.”
A friend in her late 40’s tested positive for COVID. She said it was maybe a little worse than an average cold, has totally recovered. Her husband and children all tested negative.
Another friends mother was sixty seven, very active and had a mild heart condition. She died in her sleep in July and the coroner listed it as a COVID death, the only symptom prior to her death was she was very fatigued.
We asked my husbands heart transplant team (immunosuppressed) if any of their people with transplants had gotten COVID. Six have tested positive, five of them reported bad cold symptoms and recovered fine at home. One did require a two day stay in hospital and was sent home and fully recovered.
NYS includes probables in the case count, asymptomatics, repeat positives of the same patient as new cases, won’t reveal the Ct used in tests...
The stats are crap.