Posted on 02/21/2021 5:22:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Places with highest daily reported cases per capita
Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents
If the same person goes to get COVID checked and returns for additional five times then five individual infections are recorded not just one; shows how the figures are being skewed.
Sweden: ZERO deaths, yesterday and 2 days ago
That’s actually incorrect. Each case applies only to each individual person. A person who tests positive multiple times will be counted only as one positive case. That’s why each state has more positive tests than they have positive cases:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/previous-testing-in-us.html
“The number of positive tests in a state is not equal to the number of cases, as one person may be tested more than once.”
Not so. It was reported here by a person who went in to be tested for COVID. She went back five times and was listed as tested for COVID five times in the records when she should only have been recorded once.
You get recorded as 5 tests; one case. That accurately reflects the situation. You did - in fact - have 5 tests. You are - in fact - one case.
Cases and tests are recorded separately and for exactly the reason you’ve given here: you can have many different COVID-19 tests done, but you’re only one individual. There is a point at which one person can be recorded as multiple cases if they test positive after 3 months of no positive tests. At that point, you’re hit the re-infection lottery (about 1 per 10,000 cases last I saw).
But what I’m saying is those five tests were recorded as five individual tests from the same person. It should have been just the one case but it wasn’t. She went back five times to be tested and each time it was recorded as one test for a total of five tests the hospital billed the gov’t for.
Milestone !!! Can't wait for first US State to report NO NEW CASES (I predict in April)
Excellent explanation. Unfortunately, we have a contingent here who are just hopeless. Victims of our schools, I guess. :-(
I wonder what that reinfection lottery is going to look like in another 6 months or so.
The fatalities numbers are improving, although the 7 day average is still a grim number. My wife learned last week that her best friend’s mother-in-law had succumbed to COVID, so, we have a two-fer now, as MY best friend’s Dad was a COVID fatality last year.
Interesting note: One of my wife’s younger friends (38 y/o, I think?) in particular was hospitalized, but never in the ICU, with COVID-19. That was last October, I believe. She still has problems with lung capacity and O2 levels, easily gets fatigued, etc. This seems to be a common problem. Even NBA players who have had COVID report lingering effects. I wonder how many people will survive significant COVID-19 illness, but the damage left will be a new co-morbidity for them...
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