“If we stop testing right now,” Trump said, “we’d have very few cases, if any.”
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Mike Pence encouraged governors on Monday to adopt the administration's explanation that a rise in testing was a reason behind new coronavirus outbreaks, even though testing data has shown that such a claim is misleading."I would just encourage you all, as we talk
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He came up with that all on his own.
What a genius, huh? PURE Genius!
And Trumptards eat it up.
I never knew so many people could be so ******* stupid.
Seemingly outnumbered by the massive minions of morons who just binge on biased news written by folks that can't deal with math or facts...
There MAY be a spike in Covid because of the riots/protests.. But the number REPORTING to medical services will be a 1/10 of the increase due to testing.. Simple math for normal people -- but I'm DAMN CERTAIN -- you don't GET IT and you DONT CARE....
see I told you they'd slurp it up.
If Trump and DeSantis were right that testing accounts for this increase, it should also show up as a proportional increase in the number of new tests conducted each day over the same period.
But that’s not what the data shows. In reality, Florida has been conducting roughly
the same average number of COVID-19 tests every day for the last month. During the last two weeks of May, the state conducted 369,557 tests in total, or 26,396 per day on average. During the first two weeks of June, the state conducted 387,666 tests in total, or 27,690 per day on average.
In other words, the number of tests conducted per day in Florida was unchanged, while average cases more than doubled. And so Trump and DeSantis are incorrect: Testing doesn’t explain Florida’s recent increase in infections.
The truth about testing is that it delivers diminishing returns. Sure, there’s an initial relationship between increased testing and increased case counts; the people who seek out tests first are the most likely to be sick. But scale up capacity and you start to test more and more people with less and less chance of infection. Eventually, there’s not much correlation between the amount of testing and the scale of an epidemic.
Other data from Florida reflects this dynamic as well. For instance: If the size of the state’s outbreak were stable — and if the growing case count were simply the inevitable, even desirable byproduct of increased testing — then the percentage of positive tests per day would be going down (or, at worst, staying the same).
Instead, Florida’s seven-day rolling average of positive tests
rose from 3.85 percent on June 1 to 6.35 percent on June 15.
Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.' Why he's dangerously wrong.
