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It would appear China is misrepresenting its numbers by not counting asymptomatic cases.
Color me shocked. China's government lie for its own benefit while misleading the rest of the world? Nevah' I tell you! Nevah!
We can trust nothing, NOTHING that comes from the Chinese government which has done nothing but lie from the jump, and they are lying now.
I suspected it and said it when suddenly they simply had no new cases, which defied any reasonable explanation, but now it has been verified.
Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative ... Then Positive
NPR interviewed four residents of Wuhan who contracted the virus, recovered — but then had a retest that turned positive. What does that mean for China's recovery from COVID-19?www.npr.org
"Under its newest COVID-19 prevention guidelines, China does not include in its overall daily count for total and for new cases those who retest positive after being released from medical care. China also does not include asymptomatic cases in case counts.
"I have no idea why the authorities choose not to count [asymptomatic] cases in the official case count. I am baffled," said one of the Wuhan doctors who had a second positive test after recovering."
As long as we restrict testing to only those with symptoms --- we're doing the same thing.
Or did you not think of that?
No, I agree we are not counting anywhere near the actual number and in other posts I've indicated that this is anywhere from 10-30X actual reported cases according to epidemiologists, but we're not flat out throwing positives out of our totals, at least I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
In that article one doctor says he sees a dozen of those asymptomatic cases which are not being reported per day.
There's a big difference between not having a positive result and therefore not throwing it in the totals and throwing positive results out of the totals. Even their doctors apparently don't understand that one.
One is a known flaw in the comprehensiveness of the detection system, the other is flat out lying.
If Group A fails to report asymptomatic infections because it never tested for them, and Group B fails to report asymptomatic infections because it did test for them and discounted the results, the difference is what?
The difference is intentional misrepresentation of numbers.