Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

CDC.gov ^

[Factuality]

As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement issued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists on April 5, 2020. The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease.

[Factuality]

This excerpt was taken from the CDC website. Quite confusing to me. It makes no sense to me that the CDC will advise states to use probable cases and deaths in their covid19 count. My guess is that this opens this up for some states to use politics in their count. Am I correct to assume that?

[utax]

chinese disease

[amorphous]

The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease.

It's about damn time! I hope the AHs @ CDC are providing a portal for entering the information, and intend to make the data publicly available, and doing away with the idiotic $6k fee for access to their OUR data.

[Freee-dame]

Seems that way.

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CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths

Gee, I wonder how this will affect "flattening the curve"? Get ready to panic like it's March 25th all over again! I guess the economy isn't quite dead enough yet for our overlords.

[cowboyusa]

4760 dead today!!! More than Antitem. Nuke Bejing!