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(07-16-2020 06:31 PM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  Uh, did you read the article or just get aroused by the headline and posted it here?

They have two of their doctors explain what a probable positive case is:

-positive antigen test (antigens are the receptors on invasive viruses that the immune system recognizes as a foreign substance)
-Covid symptoms
-Reason to believe they've been in contact with covid patient

Doctors go on to argue that it's just as accurate as antibody testing on a larger scale (in some cases, antibody presence doesn't mean you have virus itself. For instance, they typically skimp blood tests for herpes because it's far less accurate than testing symptoms).

They made the change because San Antonio was unique in employing antigen testing (with a few other exceptions) and the state mandated they wanted a more ubiquitous model across the board.

Apart from that article not being evidence of malfeseance, it also doesn't speculate that they were overreporting cases to begin with.

Oh, and the people making the correction are the people doing the testing.





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It's remarkable how often someone will link an article or reference something I'll read it and it won't really say what they're implying it says.

Your answer pretty much covers my thoughts. Bottom line I've read the stuff skeptics point to. I've read epidemiologists explanations of what's going on and I trust them more than internet skeptics. You're never going to have perfect data with these kinds of things but I'm comfortable that the data we have is painting a fairly accurate picture.