I've been looking at stats for Harris county, and I've noticed that they're recording recovered cases of Corona. Guess what though? No one has gotten better for three weeks!
In the Houston area, Harris county is reporting a total of 1548 active cases, 239 recovered, and 22 deaths, yeah, that's 1% deaths from confirmed cases. That's 1809 total cases since 3/1. Now, let's talk about that 239 recovered cases number. On the same page, they give a chart with daily new cases. Using that, we had 239 cases by 3/17. You would think all or most of those first 239 cases 3-5 weeks ago would be resolved or dead by now. http://publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Resources/2019-Novel-Coronavirus
Assuming those early cases have all been resolved by 3/17, it means that since then, there have been 1573 new cases. They're still showing 1548 currently active cases. Now account for the 22 deaths, and that means that they are recording zero recovered cases since 3/17. That's interesting isn't it? Three weeks, and not one of 1548 cases gets better?
The average case resolves in 10-14 days, and 6 out of 7 don't have severe symptoms. That's what I've read. That would be cases between 3/17 and 3/27. You would think most of those would be resolved by now as well. That's 264 - 577 cases that should have resolved between 10-14 days ago between 3/17-3/27. They're showing zero of those have been resolved. Three weeks, 1548 cases, and no one gets better. Sure. Sure.
I expect that the real number of active cases is 971- 1284, with what should be roughly 100 cases resolving per day. And guess what? The number of new cases per day is going down. Yesterday was only 3 cases. The day before, 13, and it was dropping 20% before that. That's Harris county. The most populous county in the state. Outside of Dallas, every other county has three times fewer cases, and they've shut down every county in the state over this.
Harris county is effed up in their recording of cases. Only 3% of tests were positive Monday. On Tuesday, 30% were positive. WTH? Makes little to no sense.