COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

bclemms said

So Florida is counting people that test positive for Covid-19 1 time no matter how many tests they take. Makes perfect sense.

Florida is counting people that test negative for Covid-19 each time they test negative and a lot of people in the state are getting multiple tests. This is clear manipulation of data to bring the percent of positive tests down. Apparently this is happening in numerous states. I still feel like I'm in some sort of twilight zone. Never imagined 6 months ago that this country could be this screwed up and that is coming from someone as cynical as it gets.

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That might be the central dispute she had with them. That makes more sense and I wish that's how they presented it.

However, you can't count 1 person as 3 positive tests (assuming you took 3 tests in a short time). but every time you're worried and get tested, it's a a test.

I'm not sure how you resolve that. I mean, if you tested negative this week, you can always catch it a week later. So, there will be duplicate testing.

I think it's just how it has to be.

However, what that means is that "positivity rate" isn't that meaningful, except for when it goes up, because that means, despite multiple testing, it is still growing.