Healthcare workers administer tests at a COVID-19 testing site at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, on July 9, 2020. (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images) AMERICA Texas Removes 3,484 COVID-19 Cases By Zachary Stieber July 16, 2020 Updated: July 16, 2020 Print ✉ Health officials in Texas on Thursday subtracted thousands of COVID-19 cases from their running case count. A notice posted on the dashboard maintained by Texas Health and Human Services blamed local officials. “The San Antonio Metro Health District has clarified its reporting to separate confirmed and probable cases, so the Bexar County and statewide totals have been updated to remove 3,484 probable cases,” the alert stated. “The local case count previously included probable cases identified by antigen testing but not those from antibody testing or other sources.” The gold standard of testing for COVID-19, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, is PCR testing. Antigen tests are faster but are more likely to give false results, according to the University of Texas Health, San Antonio. Testing data is diluted by the different ways states count cases and deaths, an Epoch Times investigation found. The state’s COVID-19 count for Bexar County is now 17,458. According to Bexar County health officials, there are 21,546 cases as of July 15. A healthcare worker talks to a patient in the ER at Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas, on July 15, 2020. (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images) Out of those, 3,634 are probable cases, the county website says. “Confirmed cases defined as cases that have a positive molecular (PCR/NAAT) test result. Probable cases defined as symptomatic cases that have a positive antigen (FIA) test result,” it states. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, an independent, told reporters last week that Bexar County would continue reporting the probable cases. “From a science perspective and medical perspective, it doesn’t make any sense to not count these test results, as they are just as accurate in determining positive cases,” Nirenberg said. “This gives us a better sense of where the infections are so we can control it in our community and get back to some sense of normalcy.” Still, the county would start separating probable and confirmed cases, he said. An antigen test “is still considered an accurate positive,” added Metro Health Assistant Director Mario Martinez. “Experts actually prefer an antigen test be used when you’re testing large populations. Now in San Antonio as we have more widespread prevalence of COVID-19, it’s definitely a good test to use in our community.”
Yup damned if you do and damned if you don't. Any way it will give tail end charlie a reason to tag it.
The joys of artificially inflated statistics, motivated by politics. It seems there is little data that can be trusted any more.
Yup. When politicians do statistics, they come out way differently than when statisticians do them. It's like when movie stars philosophize emotionally not factually.
@HK_User i am impressed you posted this. Thank you for you integrity. I've been saying for weeks the numbers are inflated due to they way they are counting the 'test positive' cases. Hope they continue to clean this up
Agree. We MAY have a reasonable picture of reality if the rest of the states get around to using some sort of meaningful standard data presentation.
Funding, that's all these numbers really mean! They need a source of funding to replace the loss of revenue Rona has caused! And they do need more PPE, lots more!
Not a problem I figure if you can not/will not post the facts as presented to you then you need to go elsewhere. As I mentioned this fact months ago about the CCP. Later time to eat.
Note the the State of Az posts " Hospital COVID-like & Influenza-like illness Surveillance " stats - note the use of the word - "LIKE". ADHS - Data Dashboard AZ is God's waiting room - U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Arizona 65 years and over 667,839 13.0% IOW Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Arizona is home to about 6.5 million people. More than 2 million (31.7 percent) are over 50; over 1.2 million (19.3 percent) are over 60; nearly 600,000 (9.4 percent) are over 70; and nearly 222,000 (3.5 percent) are over 80. these folks are 1/2way to the grave, many have serious underlying conditions. it doesn't take much. I don't worry over the numbers I worry how the damn politicians want to use those numbers...
The way I see it smoking kills around 400,000 people each year and the government hasn't even banned cigarettes. But now they are so worried about half that number or people dieing they shut down the economy. This shit don't add up.
Because smokers support an industry that employees hundreds of thousands of people who pay taxes, then there is the tobacco taxes at the national, state, county and city levels, and those early deaths are the only thing keeping Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid solvent.
I am concerned as are AK Docs why those numbers are so low in AK. That information can be part of the answer to killing off that disease. FWIW, we do know a med person in AK that is smooth in the middle of this pandemic. A care taker of a Native Group. They are in a for real lock down. I have forgot the native name for them but it translates to ELDERS.
As are the Elder Care Centers even then those centers have Dr and Nurses who have shifts and visits to do.
I saw I'm the news that 3/4 of deaths were in people over 60 and that 95% were over 44. So it's like smoking for non smokers.
