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Topic	US hit 199k COVID-19 cases yesterday. When will it stop?
adjl 11/22/20 12:08:36 PM #92:	Krazy_Kirby posted... how many of the cases are just recounts from retests? Few, if any. Cases are tracked on a per-person basis, not a per-test basis, presuming a remotely competent public health infrastructure. Krazy_Kirby posted... how many of the deaths are from people who died from something unrelated? In the sense of "they died in a car crash but then we tested them for covid and they were positive so now they're a covid death"? Virtually none. As much as paranoid anti-maskers would love to believe that every ambulance has some guy waiting with a Covid swab to test every dead person they find, postmortem testing isn't really a thing unless there's reason to suspect Covid was involved. In the sense of "They were covid positive and then they died of bacterial pneumonia"? Probably a non-trivial number, but it's extremely difficult to conclusively say that there was no relation between death of pneumonia and any respiratory comorbidities a person may have, such that counting those deaths as Covid-related is the only sensible way to document them. Krazy_Kirby posted... how many hospitalizations are from people going for something else, and already have the virus, but they were already discharged for that? Virtually none. When people are hospitalized, the reason for their hospitalization is well documented, and again, a remotely competent public health agency will not cite anything other than that as their reason for being hospitalized. This is, again, presuming that their Covid infection doesn't complicate the primary reason for their hospitalization, since if it does, that absolutely should count as a Covid hospitalization. I'm not sure why you're so desperate to insist that the statistics are being artificially inflated like this, especially when there's so much reason to believe that the complete opposite is true (I'm sure it's merely a coincidence that case numbers dropped precipitously the day after Trump decided that the CDC was no longer allowed to report them independently). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:947472776] in US hit 199... [t:79126322]...</cite> <quote>Krazy_Kirby posted... </cite> <quote>how many of the cases are just recounts from retests?</quote> Few, if any. Cases are tracked on a per-person basis, not a per-test basis, presuming a remotely competent public health infrastructure. Krazy_Kirby posted... </cite> <quote>how many of the deaths are from people who died from something unrelated?</quote> In the sense of "they died in a car crash but then we tested them for covid and they were positive so now they're a covid death"? Virtually none. As much as paranoid anti-maskers would love to believe that every ambulance has some guy waiting with a Covid swab to test every dead person they find, postmortem testing isn't really a thing unless there's reason to suspect Covid was involved. In the sense of "They were covid positive and then they died of bacterial pneumonia"? Probably a non-trivial number, but it's extremely difficult to conclusively say that there was no relation between death of pneumonia and any respiratory comorbidities a person may have, such that counting those deaths as Covid-related is the only sensible way to document them. Krazy_Kirby posted... </cite> <quote>how many hospitalizations are from people going for something else, and already have the virus, but they were already discharged for that?</quote> Virtually none. When people are hospitalized, the reason for their hospitalization is well documented, and again, a remotely competent public health agency will not cite anything other than that as their reason for being hospitalized. This is, again, presuming that their Covid infection doesn't complicate the primary reason for their hospitalization, since if it does, that absolutely should count as a Covid hospitalization. I'm not sure why you're so desperate to insist that the statistics are being artificially inflated like this, especially when there's so much reason to believe that the complete opposite is true (I'm sure it's merely a coincidence that case numbers dropped precipitously the day after Trump decided that the CDC was no longer allowed to report them independently). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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