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The NFL Shield At Midfield Grand Master

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2 hours ago, Tbe said:

11.5k cases from 65k tests. That’s a 17% positive rate. Yikes!

Heres my question though. 65k people thought they were ill enough to get tested. Do we have that many hypochondriacs or are the tests severely flawed?

If somebody is running a fever, has a cough, or has been notified that they've been around somebody who had/has COVID-19 they're probably getting tested if they have the ability to.  That's how contact tracing is supposed to work, and it's a recipe for high test numbers/low-ish positives. 

There was somebody who was ID'd as testing positive for it in one of the buildings at my job and I bet everybody who came in contact with that person going back a month went out and got a brain tickler.  That's potentially a few dozen tests being performed because of one positive case.  I wouldn't necessarily break it down to a binary proposition of hypochondriacs vs. tests being faulty.

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1 hour ago, MegaMan said:

They be like .. we're going to cancel March Madness - the NFL and MLB season - and lose all this revenue - to show the public the virus is real and that it is important. We would never take less revenue to further an agenda .. lol

Yes they would .. the richest people profit the most out of this ordeal, its the average Joe trying to drink a beer at a bar without a mask that is getting fuged

very true comrade.  oh shoot i was not supposed to type comrade.    sorry.  very true cool american guy like me

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3 hours ago, Tbe said:

11.5k cases from 65k tests. That’s a 17% positive rate. Yikes!

Heres my question though. 65k people thought they were ill enough to get tested. Do we have that many hypochondriacs or are the tests severely flawed?

Your understanding of who is getting tested needs some refinement.

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1 hour ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

If somebody is running a fever, has a cough, or has been notified that they've been around somebody who had/has COVID-19 they're probably getting tested if they have the ability to.  That's how contact tracing is supposed to work, and it's a recipe for high test numbers/low-ish positives. 

There was somebody who was ID'd as testing positive for it in one of the buildings at my job and I bet everybody who came in contact with that person going back a month went out and got a brain tickler.  That's potentially a few dozen tests being performed because of one positive case.  I wouldn't necessarily break it down to a binary proposition of hypochondriacs vs. tests being faulty.

That’s a good point about contact tracing. I know Florida is understaffed in that area, but I guess they have enough to partly drive these numbers. 

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2 hours ago, Tbe said:

That’s a good point about contact tracing. I know Florida is understaffed in that area, but I guess they have enough to partly drive these numbers. 

 

The following was on a Florida Doctors facebook page.

Image may contain: text that says 'To my fellow Floridians... ..there's NO need to fret the number of cases of COVID-19 going up here in Florida because while more folks are being tested and obviously new positive results are being added to the overall numbers, the folks testing positive for the virus are NOT necessarily getting sick or if they are sick it's with much forms of the virus. Translation: herd immunity via exposure finally starting to kick in.'

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7 day moving average  of deaths continues do go down for the last 11 weeks.

Maybe that Scholls guy is on to something, hope so.

No real correlation with deaths and positive tests at this point.  Dynamics all changed with increased testing availability.  Positive tests have been fairly flat or increasing for a long time.

Hospitals are treating more patients, but again, with much much better results.

Unless the lag time is 5 weeks between positives and deaths, it does not seem to be the same situation as March

 

And for Four Corners, its okay that people are not dying, Trump will probably still lose.

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