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Originally posted by mossrose View Post
Firstly, your opening comments are certainly calling CP's honesty into question, so stop playing semantics.
Secondly, what about those reports where people who make an appointment for a test, don't show up, and get notifications that they are positive?
Thirdly, guess what? I don't care about what the "experts" you've cited say. Do you really think they are going to admit that they've been fudging the numbers?
I was very clearly informed each test is a unique case.
Perhaps they received the wrong information, but they were most certainly treating each test as a separate patient.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
You are rejecting a whole mess of scientific studies in your claim. Are you more knowledgeable than all the scientists and medical doctors who have done these studies? You can start reviewing the studies at https://c19study.com and point out where the studies are inaccurate or have been done wrong. So far, no one has found specific faults with the studies. Some people have complained that these were not double-blind studies. They are expressing a preference for only one type of study while denying that less demanding studies can also give accurate results. Please identify where the studies have failed to provide reputable doctors with reputable information. Otherwise, your position is biased and senseless.
You make it sound like the reputation preserving doctors are those doctors who do not care about patients being healed.
Your link goes to a long long list of published and unpublished studies, and suggest I start reviewing them! Well, I took a look and some of them are published in "journals" with rock bottom impact factors, IOW journals of poor quality and low standards.
Less demanding studies can give accurate results, but not necessarily - a stopped clock is right twice a day.
If you want to support specific claims with science, you need to identify specific studies from reputable research groups published in quality journals.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
I specifically asked our testing center why I had to sign up as a new person each time I took the test. Why couldn't I use my previous login as a followup?
I was very clearly informed each test is a unique case.
Perhaps they received the wrong information, but they were most certainly treating each test as a separate patient.- does not regularly provide total tests in terms of unique people tested
- does not provide numbers for patients currently on ventilators with COVID-19
- does not regularly provide a cumulative number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19
- data for multiple key metrics is hard to discover or access
https://covidtracking.com/about-data...ng-assessments
I don't know how covid testing data is aggregated nationally. In some ways it makes sense to count a repeated test separately as a later positive test might reflect virus spread.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
States are evaluated on how they present covid data including test data. Here is the result for Texas, which is better than many if not most states, but reflects your experience:- does not regularly provide total tests in terms of unique people tested
- does not provide numbers for patients currently on ventilators with COVID-19
- does not regularly provide a cumulative number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19
- data for multiple key metrics is hard to discover or access
https://covidtracking.com/about-data...ng-assessments
I don't know how covid testing data is aggregated nationally. In some ways it makes sense to count a repeated test separately as a later positive test might reflect virus spread.
It's a hot mess - I don't care what is written on a website.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
Without calling into question your honesty in reporting what you believe you were told, based on what is the reported standard from the CDC - and multiple other sources - It is unlikely what you were told (or read) actually reflects what is being done.
In support of my conclusion, consider:
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/v...9-9a0417650cec
Do two positive tests for the same person count as two cases?
ANSWER:
No. Each person who tests positive is counted as one case, regardless of how many times he or she takes a test that returns positive.
SOURCES:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- "Testing Data in the U.S." "Cases and Deaths in the U.S." and "CDC COVID Data Tracker"
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/...4-19082f2320b3
The state reports total tests and total cases separately.
https://www.nbc15.com/2020/07/15/you...ore-than-once/
Health officials say no matter how many times you receive a positive COVID-19 test result, it will only be counted for the first day you tested positive.
https://www.co.merced.ca.us/Faq.aspx?QID=804
Does an individual who tests positive for COVID-19 twice get counted as two positive cases in the Merced County Confirmed Cases?
No, individuals who test positive twice are only counted as a single a positive case in the Confirmed Cases.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...c-6ddea82999a0
VERIFY: No, a person who gets multiple positive COVID-19 tests is not counted as multiple cases
https://wlos.com/news/news-13-invest...nted-each-time
North Carolina’s Public Health Department also confirmed that the individual would only be counted once, saying they assign each person an ID number to track multiple tests.
So, yeah, things are a mess. There's really no other way to put it.Last edited by Mountain Man; 03-08-2021, 10:00 AM.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by mossrose View Post
Firstly, your opening comments are certainly calling CP's honesty into question, so stop playing semantics.
Secondly, what about those reports where people who make an appointment for a test, don't show up, and get notifications that they are positive?
Thirdly, guess what? I don't care about what the "experts" you've cited say. Do you really think they are going to admit that they've been fudging the numbers?
On a national scale or state scale, test data should track with hospitalizations and deaths. Are there clear discrepancies there?
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
Look at the dates on your articles: they're all after July 2020. Prior to that, things were a bit more Wild West.For instance, around May 2020, Virginia was counting number of positive tests per day rather than unique cases, so a person who tested positive on multiple days would count as multiple cases. This report from May 2020 reveals how the CDC had been conflating two different tests that led to an artificially increased case count. And as late as November 2020, there were still problems, such as Oregon which was underrporting the total number of tests given which didn't increase the actual number of positive tests but did artificially increase the percentages. In other cases, the same person is still being counted as multiple positives if a certain amount of time has elapsed between tests which varies from state to state.
So, yeah, things are a mess. There's really no other way to put it.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Your argument seems to be that things WERE a mess last spring, right?Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Why would experts subject themselves to fraud allegations?
On a national scale or state scale, test data should track with hospitalizations and deaths. Are there clear discrepancies there?
you were way over dramatizing the pandemic. That seems to be a characteristic of the left, and is a large part of why we don't trust you guys.
When the left talks about the pandemic, it is always in the very worst of terms and conditions, which causes a real challenge to credibility.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Can you provide some links to support that?
There is no reason to think that deaths due to other causes like cancer have dropped, but the number of deaths has increased, coincidental with the pandemic spread.
https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...21#post1245321
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Can you provide some links to support that?
There is no reason to think that deaths due to other causes like cancer have dropped, but the number of deaths has increased, coincidental with the pandemic spread.
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Originally posted by mossrose View Post
Firstly, your opening comments are certainly calling CP's honesty into question, so stop playing semantics.
Secondly, what about those reports where people who make an appointment for a test, don't show up, and get notifications that they are positive?
Thirdly, guess what? I don't care about what the "experts" you've cited say. Do you really think they are going to admit that they've been fudging the numbers?That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
You say that no one has found specific faults with the studies, but in your very next sentence acknowledge that some have been faulted for not being double blind.
Your link goes to a long long list of published and unpublished studies, and suggest I start reviewing them! Well, I took a look and some of them are published in "journals" with rock bottom impact factors, IOW journals of poor quality and low standards.
Less demanding studies can give accurate results, but not necessarily - a stopped clock is right twice a day.
If you want to support specific claims with science, you need to identify specific studies from reputable research groups published in quality journals.
A little bit of safe prophylactic treatment with Hydroxycholoroquine really is not as bad as taking experimental Pfizer vaccines with efficacy determined on a group of less than 200 of all those people in a study. lol. And this was accepted as grounds for promotion of the experimental shots.
You just will try everything not to accept the existing treatments for COVID-19. So enjoy your experimental shots and hopefully we'll see you around.Last edited by mikewhitney; 03-08-2021, 11:34 AM.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
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The simple fact is that case counts and test counts are tallied separately per CDC guidelines, as evidenced by the links I gave and the pertinent content of those links posted. Bottom line, people that test positive 6 times are not counted as 6 different cases of COVID19. One case, 6 test results.My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19
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