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Yet another state has begun hiding crucial data for the re-opening process:
https://princetonherald.com/2020/05/23/collin-county-lists-5-new-covid-19-cases/
I don't know if this has been widely reported yet... Just a nugget picked from the local paper daily Covid-19 report.
Shell_Seas
(3,436 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)Overwhelmed hospitals, mass graves, no one to pick up the bodies in people's homes.
Placing the ideological bet.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JCMach1
(27,940 posts)Without knowing the number of tests conducted.
This is a very sneaky way of hiding the numbers.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to date has required symptoms. So, it really doesn't mean much. If I were concerned about how the disease it progressing in my area, I'd be more interested in hospitalizations and deaths.
Second, as this national article explains -- negative test reporting varies among states and is not consistent because of the number of entities reporting.
No reporting standards
"Once there is a test result, the process of transmitting data to make that test part of the official stats isnt always an easy one. Coronavirus is categorized as an infectious disease, meaning that all labs have to report the result of positive tests directly to their state health department. But negative tests do not always have to be counted that depends on the states legislation and most states did not report this number months into the epidemic.
"Many states started to bring in other types of testing: largely commercial, but also hospitals, universities, et cetera, said Alexis Madrigal, staff writer at The Atlantic and founder of the COVID Tracking Project, which manually tracks Covid-19 numbers in the U.S. For a time, not every single test result was recorded, and primarily what we were missing were negative tests results. Positives, you have to report. But not everyones reporting negatives.
"States now report negative tests either as their own metric, or report the total number of tests conducted, meaning that negatives are then calculated by the COVID Tracking Project as total cases minus positive cases.
"All in all, information made available by state health departments has been more timely and complete than information coming from the CDC, especially from a testing perspective, for which the CDC only offers a national aggregate not counting private labs. However, there is no overall standard when it comes to the information that has to be made public at the state level, which has led to a large variation in data quality across the country."
https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/05/coronavirus-data-positive-tests-deaths-covid-19-stats/610306/
Point I'm making is that I don't think this is some great conspiracy to hide the continuing impact of coronavirus.
uponit7771
(91,355 posts)With testing, most states now fall below the 10 percent positive rate. But when it comes to reaching the positive rate seen in, say, South Korea or New Zealand, just six states Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming have rates below 2 percent over the week of May 5.
Igel
(35,995 posts)That would be important information here, since NEDSS is the thing no longer sharing negative test results.
Note: Collin Countys health department receives daily COVID-19 test results positive and negative from physicians offices, private labs, hospitals and the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) through Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). We share this information with the public the same day it is received.
So it's a national-level thing that's ceasing sharing. Not a Texas-level thing.
Next question: Where's the focus? Is the data still being shared in some way that matters, just not through the Texas DSHS to counties?
Don't know. https://www.cdc.gov/nbs/index.html is the NEDSS site--it's part of the CDC. If you want to fix your claim and see if the information is being used or is entirely squelched you can spend a couple of minutes rummaging. I'm going back to dinner and then reading some more Kentukis.
Andy823
(11,521 posts)And many other red states. It's to please their lord and master, little lord trump. It's pretty obvious that these states are doing what trump wants them to do, and that trump has been behind all the BS about opening up the states with his protesters.
The deaths are on trump, period! They can lie all the want, the truth will come out.
JCMach1
(27,940 posts)POS % as a key metric. Now, they are hiding it.
Does that tell you anything?
Abbott is smart evil... Unlike the peeps is DC
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)It is good for them politically and they don't give a rat's ass about the people.