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Originally Posted by Tassie f100
And if we take Trumps advice we stop doing testing so the number of active cases comes down.If we had done this in Aust at the start I presume we wouldn’t have had any active cases LOL
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He *says* he was joking about that (while it was tied to a trump 'joke', I think he was not really joking)
The thing to note is the difference between someone who is positive and symptomatic, and someone who has no symptoms that would cause alarm.
Now that the US is testing people that would not go to the doctor, that figure cannot be compared to when they were only testing sick people.
So the curve of positive test results becomes meaningless.
In the US there was some early sampling of asymptomatic and symptomatic people in a location.
This revealed (IIRC) that there were over 50 harmless cases to every case sought medical advise.
So, if all that people read is the positive test rate, then good testing gives bad results.