Today I found this. Source
"Georgia's Department of Public Health also regularly publishes a graph that shows cases over time, except new infections are not listed on the day they came back positive, which is the practice in many other states. Instead, Georgia lists new cases on the day the patient first reported symptoms.
"That practice can shift the timeline of the outbreak and make it appear as if the state is moving past the peak.
"Kemp spokesperson Candice Broce insisted that the governor’s office is not telling the department what to do and that officials are not trying to dress up data to make Kemp look better, saying that “could not be further from the truth.”
This doesn’t change the number and in fact is likely more accurate to show and how the virus works. But you get your underwear in a wad over this and ignore that in other states multiple positives are counted as novel cases every time there is a positive in the same person. And deaths are inflated by over 25% and presumptive deaths are also included.
Never mind that multiple states have revised death rates downward.
Get a grip. It’s over. You need to plan what you are going to do next in your life as fear mongering appears to be on the wane.
So tell me. Do you have covid when the symptoms start or when the test is down? If when the test is done they we have a cure. We will never test anyone then they never have covid!
It skews the numbers more to report the day the person is tested than to report the day they became ill