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Originally Posted by tucker6
As testing capabilities increase, both positive and negative totals will increase. It’s just a numbers game without real meaning. Total positives is the poorest metric one could use to judge the current state of the pandemic and make policy.
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Originally Posted by davew
and includes false positives
some feel 10% of the world has been infected
35 million in US. we need more tests to find them all
Today 06:40 AM
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Gee guys maybe a whole bunch of epidemiologists above your pay grade are aware of this and continue to use other metrics.
Of course dailty cases are lagging indicators. daily deaths have stayed roughly the same since late June. Hovering around 1000 per day.
And more importantly, I was simply correcting PA who specifically denied
CASES were increasing.