You are correct. A ‘case’ in medical statistics refers to a morbidity state such as a disease specifically COVID-19.
SARS-COV-2 = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- Corona VIRUS - 2.
SARS-COV-2 designates VIRUS.
COVID-19 = Corona Virus Infectious DISEASE.
COVID-19 is the DISEASE.
Persons are ‘TESTED’ for the VIRUS; Persons are ‘DIAGNOSED’ for DISEASE.
Most positive tests are never diagnosed with the disease because most people infected never develop symptoms that indicate disease.
Most ‘incidents’ never become ‘cases’.
The media morons should not be using the term ‘case’ which has meaning in medical statistics and medical science journals.
The appropriate term to use in regards to a positive test is ‘incident’.
For you lawyers out there, an apt analogy is accused vs. convicted.
Yet the fakers and their apparachiks lecture “Listen to the Science!”.
They wouldn’t know Science if it came up to them and spit in their faces.
Thanks. Remember how libby reporters conflated on immigration and still do? Conflated illegal immigrant and legal immigrant into just one word? They were both conflated into “immigrant” and “migrant”
SAME going on with how Covid19 cases and positive tests are being mixed together. Very very sloppy language that is partly intentional to keep the media induced Covid lockdown panic alive, and partly though sheer stupidity and intellectual laziness.
My county is sort of liberal. You know the media brainwashing is intense when you see people walking in our non-crowded outdoors with masks on. Even out there running with masks on.