Just browsing the news bumped into two unrelated stories today, from small town California to large.
Los Angeles is one of the biggest school districts in the country.
LAUSD Is Handing Out Rapid Tests For Baseline COVID Testing; The district requires all students and staff to have the negative COVID-19 test for a baseline in addition to weekly testing. - https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-is-handing-out-rapid-tests-for-baseline-testing-heres-where-to-go
Mendocino County schools ahead of the curve in distributing COVID tests - https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2022/01/07/mendocino-county-schools-ahead-of-the-curve-in-distributing-covid-tests/
I wonder if each positive test counts as a positive case, rather than 2 positive tests counting as one positive case.
"We introduced mandatory testing in the city."
"Okay, what are the results?"
"This month, there have been 45,000 infections"
"There's only 30,000 people in the town."
"Yes, but each positive test counts as a new infection."
Infection mean literally nothing. We are constantly “infected”. What matters is when infection causes disease. This is one of the word games they play. Infection and disease are separate. You can be “infected” multiple times with no antibodies built, but the disease is when you build immunization.
That's one of the reasons I've had to explain to people that these vaccines can't prevent infection. The Media is intentionally confusing infection with noticeable illness and even hospitalization.
This was confirmed as how the major hospital system in my city was handling it on the numbers they were showing.
Have somebody admitted and you test them every day? That positive test adds to the total each day.
Not that I'm aware of, but that's what I figured.