A positive test is not a case. You may never get sick. In other "outbreaks" a case would be where both: 1)you test positive and 2)you have (in this china flu case) presented with fever and severe URI symptoms. This is the classical definition of the "case"
Infection = presenting symptoms of the bug but not tested. So presenting with 1) fever and 2)Severe URI symptoms.
We always have far more infections than cases. Cases rely on a test of some sort to "verify". (Don't get me started on china flu test accuracy that is a whole other subject).
What they've done is screwed around with the definitions. Now, to the new world a case is just merely a positive test.
If we used the classical definition, as cases rise so would deaths. This has not been happening, at least in FL. Mind you we have a much older population here. Also the snow birds are down, so we've just added 1/3 more old people to our population for the winter. We still are not seeing rises in deaths commensurate with "cases".
CASES =/= INFECTIONS
POSITIVE TEST =/= CASE
It's 1984 though. They have people programmed now so that when they say rise in "cases" people automatically think oh no sick people. In actuality it is NOT for china flu. If they had not fucked around with the definition of a "case" we would have accurate numbers and wouldn't be fear porning ourselves into economic doom.
One final note, our hospitals are just fine. We are still running at 75-80% occupancy in ICU which is historic for us. Plenty of beds, plenty of room lots of doctors and nurses. (Source: my brother is a surgeon here in FL).
OK one more time.
A positive test is not a case. You may never get sick. In other "outbreaks" a case would be where both: 1)you test positive and 2)you have (in this china flu case) presented with fever and severe URI symptoms. This is the classical definition of the "case"
Infection = presenting symptoms of the bug but not tested. So presenting with 1) fever and 2)Severe URI symptoms.
We always have far more infections than cases. Cases rely on a test of some sort to "verify". (Don't get me started on china flu test accuracy that is a whole other subject).
What they've done is screwed around with the definitions. Now, to the new world a case is just merely a positive test.
If we used the classical definition, as cases rise so would deaths. This has not been happening, at least in FL. Mind you we have a much older population here. Also the snow birds are down, so we've just added 1/3 more old people to our population for the winter. We still are not seeing rises in deaths commensurate with "cases".
CASES =/= INFECTIONS
POSITIVE TEST =/= CASE
It's 1984 though. They have people programmed now so that when they say rise in "cases" people automatically think oh no sick people. In actuality it is NOT for china flu. If they had not fucked around with the definition of a "case" we would have accurate numbers and wouldn't be fear porning ourselves into economic doom.
One final note, our hospitals are just fine. We are still running at 75-80% occupancy in ICU which is historic for us. Plenty of beds, plenty of room lots of doctors and nurses. (Source: my brother is a surgeon here in FL).
Thank God we have DeSantis here in FL.