COVID increasing

[Distancefix]

Georgia stats are like California in the 14-day increase case stats. California increasing in Cases.
Washington DC increasing.
Massachusetts increasing
Maryland vast increase in cases
Rhode Island increasing
Michigan increasing again
Pennslyvania increasing
Washington State increasing

It's almost like a virus doesn't care if you are Democrat or Republican. Weird how re-opening is a big threat because it's happening everywhere. Doesn't mean you shouldn't mask or social distance.

Flattening out...Florida (55-60K tests per day) decreasing in new cases, Arizona decreasing in new cases, Texas decreasing in new cases. Hospitalizations decreasing in Arizona and Texas. ICU increasing but deaths decreasing.


Huffington Post lying as usual about COVID, compared to Florida. The notion that Florida is experiencing more cases than NY is BS.
#New York had a death rate 8 times that of Florida, and at the height of the pandemic, NY tested 15-20K tests per day.

Ages 10-19 you have a 3 in 1,000,000 chance of dying from COVID. (upper-end estimates by the Swiss) If you're under the age of 64, the chances are not bad, by the upper-end stats.

 

[Distancefix]

I know a person who wasn't feeling well and was sent to get a test. After waiting for 2 hrs decided to just leave. Two days later she got a letter confirming she tested positive even though she never got tested. Imagine how positive it would have been if she actually got tested!

I've known several who had a quick turn around on results, and moms were 6 or 7 days.

 

[Stop n Go]

I know a person who wasn't feeling well and was sent to get a test. After waiting for 2 hrs decided to just leave. Two days later she got a letter confirming she tested positive even though she never got tested. Imagine how positive it would have been if she actually got tested!

This literally happened to a friend of mine as well. Went to get a test, the wait took too long and he had to be somewhere so he left. Got a letter a couple days later saying he tested positive without ever even getting the actual test cause he left.

 

[Stop n Go]

There are too many cases of this to be accidental. Is the motivation to raise the totals of positives or to increase payments or both or something else? I would assume they get paid regardless of test outcome so?

I’m not sure what it is. But I do know let’s say you go get a test and it’s positive, you have to test negative twice in order to be cleared. Well if you test positive on the first test and then test positive say a day or two later, that counts as ANOTHER positive towards the count even though you’re the same person.

Positive cases are so misleading. Covid is bad. But these numbers are just outrageous and unfortunately you have guys/girls on here reading them like they are the Bible and being scared to leave their basement.

 

[kaskaskiakid]

I've said all along, don't believe the numbers. No doubt there is under reporting and over reporting of cases. But I do believe they are useful in determining hot spots. A more useful number would be the number of actively infected people in specific locales. I want to know if I am going out of town how many people are contagious where I am going, or at least have a general idea.

 

[Cheetah King]

I've said all along, don't believe the numbers. No doubt there is under reporting and over reporting of cases. But I do believe they are useful in determining hot spots. A more useful number would be the number of actively infected people in specific locales. I want to know if I am going out of town how many people are contagious where I am going, or at least have a general idea.

Again in the raw total positive Covid tests and people testing for antibodies are being counted the same. I know of 3 people that have antibodies but they were treated as positives.

 

[Expect2Win]

If the same person posts the same anecdotal evidence under 2 different UNs, does that count as 1 or 2 cases?

There are too many cases of this to be accidental. Is the motivation to raise the totals of positives or to increase payments or both or something else? I would assume they get paid regardless of test outcome so?