Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ...
by jiveturkey on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:46PM
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The question was 'symptomatic'.
Lest you think it's a typo, the number of symptomatic tests is a critical number to know.
It's not about whether the individuals beings tested have been harmed, it's about whether testing shows us the infection rate in the population or not. If 100% of tests were of symptomatic patients, the numbers tell us almost nothing.
Lest you think it's a typo, the number of symptomatic tests is a critical number to know.
It's not about whether the individuals beings tested have been harmed, it's about whether testing shows us the infection rate in the population or not. If 100% of tests were of symptomatic patients, the numbers tell us almost nothing.