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Originally Posted by PugMom
i have been to this site in the past. i'm not so sure the info is false, just that anyone can 'report' an incident, & if i remember correctly, the site does not validate any info posted. please correct if i am wrong
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Good point.
I wonder how the CDC tabulates it's numbers of infections. Does it count how many PEOPLE are infected or how many TESTS showed positive. Not the same. And my understanding of how they diagnose the results of the tests is that they run each test up to 40 times. If they get a positive result after ten they call it positive. If it has to go to 40 with no positive, they call it negative. What I read my be incorrect, but that is what I get from how they conduct the tests. And then, my understanding now is that even the Flu can show up as a positive on those tests.
So, is it how many positive tests or how many people actually tested positive? How do they avoid counting one person tested five times as five infections? And if someone tells me that they have a database of names tested positive, then prove it to me. How do they register home test kit results?