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RE: Football is currently under the 12 foot regulatio
(09-08-2020 06:53 PM)yakko Wrote: (09-07-2020 11:11 PM)Stammers Wrote: Number of cases is a useless stat. Exponentially more tests lead to more cases, what a shock. ALSO, one side doesn't make the distinction between positive cases and the number of people who test positive.
Test positive, then still positive after one week, still positive after two weeks, still positive after 3 weeks with no symptoms counts as 4 cases of covid. The entire process is criminally dishonest.
More tests do not lead to more cases, the cases were already there and you didn't know about them. Though I will agree that the stat is misleading. We need more testing, but what needs to be released is the percentage of change in positive cases so you can see if things are trending up relative to the population.
I don’t know if it’s released on a state level but in Memphis it is released on a weekly level for Shelby county. You have to scroll down a ways, but there is a weekly average positivity percentage trend graph.
https://covid19.memphistn.gov/news/
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Football is currently under the 12 foot regulation
