Interesting point. It’s strange they aren’t breaking it down between active cases and inactive cases. Then a newly found inactive case found through antibody testing could be correctly recorded as an inactive case, but also one they hadn’t known about before.
You are applying common sense... While they need things to fit within their narrative...
Explain the common sense difference between an "inactive" and an "active" case of a COVID-19 infection, because anybody at this point that "thinks" they have the definite answer, is blowing smoke, and should be in the WH.
Anybody know the difference between inactive and active herpes, because your partner that just infected doesn't.
You're kidding right?? Inactive vs Active in the way they are currently applying it, is pretty much irrelevant. PA is basing all decisions to re-open the State, on whether or not Covid is "CURRENTLY spreading". Then in order to "claim" corona is still spreading wildly, they are now combining the numbers of "new infections" with the numbers of "new anti-body results" of infections that happened months ago... and then CLAIMING that the combined numbers prove the virus is still spreading out of control today. Which it may or may not be... but no one really knows, because the combined figures they using now are worthless for determining that particular trend. And the State is refusing to provide a breakdown of what are NEW virus positives and what are new Anti-body only positives.
That's like counting all the people that got cancer 2 weeks ago... and then counting all the people that got cancer LAST week and plotting those 2 figures on a chart... And then counting all the people that got cancer THIS week, and adding to it all the people that got cancer since the beginning of the year to that figure(because you just got the old figures)... and claiming that people identified with cancer increased 100 fold THIS WEEK.... Just because you finally decided to count past occurrences, and add them to this weeks numbers.... Then next week count all the new cases for that week and adding in all of last years cases to it, and putting the combined plot point even higher than prior weeks on the same chart. This is a gross exaggeration.... but it makes the point.
You can't make a valid case that covid is still spreading once you start contaminating the current figures, by adding infections that occurred months ago, and calling them all "New Infections".... Whether they still carry the virus is irrelevant to whether or not the "NEW infection count is still trending up"... When you are counting old cases you just found out about, and adding them to actual new cases, and calling them all NEW... the numbers are worthless.
Doing that may help determine how many people in TOTAL ever had Covid... but that is a completely different statistic. And it has no place being used in stats trying to plot a "current" NEW infection trend.
You could even tell the person reading the submitted question was shocked by the answer when it was given.
Which is why I said any Stats coming out of PA right now regarding the current growth rate of Covid are worthless. If they split out the new anti-body stats for what they really are "Historical trends"... then they might be useful. But that is unlikely now that the Governor called portions of the State "Cowards" & threatened them this morning.
