COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Clintonrebel said

Interesting thread, especially lately. I actually have a Covid question. Why do they even claim to be tracking Covid cases when there is no way to self report positive Covid home tests? My wife and I tested positive in June. We were vaxxed and barely had any symptoms and are fine now. But there’s no instructions anywhere on what to do if you test positive other than to isolate. I asked friends this. They all had Covid and they had no answer. How many millions have tested positive this summer and nobody know or cares? It’s as though they only want to count the extremely bad cases.

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They are starting to treat it like the flu. We don't test every case. We test a lot and estimate the rest.

If you contacted your doctor or any doctor about your positive result or to get anything prescribed, they would have reported your case to the health department (at least that's what the CDC says they are supposed to do).

Outside of that, you could probably contact your health department.

However, per the CDC website they didn't want to mandate reporting to make sure people just use the tests and then isolate.

My work still requires 5 days isolation then 5 days masked, if no fever and symptoms resolve.

The cases aren't as useful, but they Still show trends. Cases up, steady, or down. The exact number is less accurate.

I just use the overall trend to know if I should mask up or not.