Here’s something I am unclear on:
If I test positive on Monday, that’s one case.
They would give me treatment. And they would re-test me to see if I am negative, right?
If I am tested and found positive M-F and then found negative on Saturday, am I in the books as 5 cases of COVID?
Yes.
That is the way it works in Washington State where we live... I do not know about the rest of the country.
Cold and flu season is just starting and everyone who wakes up with a scratchy throat or stuffy nose is going in to get tested. The tests are “oversampled” so many times that anyone with a trace of coronavirus dna tests positive even if it is such a small amount that they never would get sick before their body fights it off. And many positives are from people who have already fought it off.
The Democrats are pushing this narrative that it is getting worse to win the election.
Yes you are. The number refers to positive results . They are not cases, only a sum of the positive test results . It includes retakes and false positives. A false positive when discovered is not subtracted from the overall result.
No, CC. You are on the books as something like 75 cases. For each positive test, they are saying there are roughly 15 CASES, because they assume that each positive test patient has possibly infected others.
If the people who are processing the tests with no patient info other than a random number do the counting, every positive test is counted.
Yes. The CDC is counting ‘positive tests’ as I understand it. Another question: If I test positive and take a followup test to ‘confirm’ that and the second test comes out negative, do they revise the numbers by deducting my positive result?
Russia, Russia, Russia.
Covid, Covid, Covid.
Stop the stupid. You are being played. Cases don’t matter, deaths do; death rate is _low_, low, low.
A bunch of sheep being herded this way, then that. Wake up.
A friend tested negative 5 times and when they released him from the hospital they still told him that he needed to quarantine because he probably had covid.
Yes. Not only that, if after testing negative for the virus, if you were given an antibody test which means you had the virus, you would be counted as another new case.