TOTAL TESTS-—
Yesterday, the USA reached another milestone by having conducted over 5 million tests (5,015,602).
I have a couple of comments:
1. Does anyone have the number of total tests that were reported each day since April 1st? The reason I ask is that we are continuing to see a large number of new cases. I suspect the reason for the new cases is the increase in daily testing since April 1st. But I do not have the numbers to confirm.
2. Gov Ron DeSantis in his daily press briefing brought up the subject of testing and retesting. Here is how it works. If a person tests positive and is sent home, they must be retested in 14 days to see if they are still positive. And if they test positive again, they must come back in 7 days to be tested a 3rd time. So Gov DeSantis was warning people that just because 300,000 tests have been given in Florida, it does not mean that 300,000 people have been tested in Florida..
What Gov DeSantis wants the Florida State Health Dept to do is to separate the ‘first time’ test results from the ‘2nd or 3rd’ retest results.
By making that change, the State of Florida officials and its residents can have a better understanding of the percent of people tested the ‘first time’ who were positive or negative.
As an example, it is one thing to say that 500,000 test results came in today.
Versus saying that 500,000 test results came in today and 100,000 were from people who were tested for the first time and 400,000 were from people who had been tested multiple times.
It annoys me each day here in Florida when the agenda driven media begins their coverage with the blanket number of “new” cases by reporting it as a static number. If one digs into the full report posted on line one finds there is a stat called the percentage of positive tests. That percentage has been drifting down each day for almost ten days to now being 9.5%. IOW while there are new cases that number MUST be much lowier than before as the denominator is a big number going in. Furthermore we are still mostly testing people with some kind of symptom. ~1000 people have died in fl from this chink weapon. Tragic for them and their loved ones for sure but does that mean we need stay in our closets forever? For comparison two people were killed on Rte 95 near me. Does that infer I should stay off that road or only drive it in an abrams? The mask thing is really getting to me. Someone noted yesterday if jeans and undies cannot contain a fart how is a piece of material going to contain a virus.