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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, I don't think the tests are even that accurate, especially for when symptoms first appear.

I have no direct knowledge of that, it's just the overall sense that I get when looking at the numbers.

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Wrong. [/quote]

I might very well be wrong.  It just doesn't make much sense to me how a husband can contract this virus and his wife who has been around him and breathing the same air comes up negative - like with Idris Elba and his wife.

Also, last I saw, Florida has tested over 1000 people and over 800 of those tests came back negative.  For such a contagious disease it sure doesn't seem that contagious based on those tests.

Either there are false negatives, people have some sort of natural immunity to it here or it isn't as contagious as once thought.  Maybe it's just not spread as easily in this country for some reason?[/quote]

[b]No, it’s because their criteria for testing is so screwed up. For weeks, they would only test IF you had travelled to China, or IF you has known contact with a confirmed positive case[/b]. Only now are some (not all!) states testing on symptoms only - and even then, because of the massive shortage of tests, many mild case symptoms are just being told to quarantine at home unless they start to have trouble breathing - those are all likely positive cases that are not being included in the totals because they aren’t actually being tested unless their situations become dire. We cannot extrapolate ANYTHING about death rate or infection rate from US testing numbers because the way we are going about this is so screwed up.[/quote]

omg they did this because they didn't have enough tests! they had to make choices.

yes, we do not have exact death rates and infection rates. this is important to have, but not the most important thing. everybody wants more tests NOW, but it's not going to happen right away. keeping distance to reduce transmission and expanding hospital capacities is much more important at the moment.[/quote]

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