ATL Bear said:Yes. I stopped doing my regular updates because this thread continues to go crazy tangential.nein51 said:
Is there a correlation between number of positive tests and number of tests being given? Ie are positives going up because the number of tests is going up?
You've also got the factor of follow up tests for positives, which compound the numbers because each person tested with a positive result counts as a new case, and people who test positive must continue to test until they are negative.
Just an anecdote, My Great Aunt (103) is languishing in a hospital after testing positive nearly a month ago. She just had test number 6 during that period that has come back positive. She has been asymptomatic the entire time, but you can't play around with someone her age. All 6 of her tests were reported to the state.
I keep seeing freak outs so I wondered if this is merely an issue of quantity of tests. If the % has stayed the same then really nothing has changed we just "scaled up". It also possible that the % has gone down but case numbers have gone up.
I don't know why people think this is going away. That's clearly not happening any time soon.