Uncounted millions had COVID-19 symptoms, but no positive test
Testing errors, misdiagnoses and a sluggish public health response left patients out of official tallies.
Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY Updated 12:07 p.m. CDT July 17, 2020
Uncounted millions had COVID-19 symptoms, but no positive test
It puzzles me why Trump partisans are so unwilling to accept the fact. If they thought about it, they'd realize that this is one of the reasons why the mortality rate has been so high (currently about 7%). To properly assess this, you need to add all the people who were sick enough with the virus to seek medical help, and divide the number of deaths from the virus by that number. And deaths are a lot harder to miss, so except for people who die of the virus at home, deaths are much less under-reported.
Testing errors, misdiagnoses and a sluggish public health response left patients out of official tallies.
Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY Updated 12:07 p.m. CDT July 17, 2020
Uncounted millions had COVID-19 symptoms, but no positive test
It puzzles me why Trump partisans are so unwilling to accept the fact. If they thought about it, they'd realize that this is one of the reasons why the mortality rate has been so high (currently about 7%). To properly assess this, you need to add all the people who were sick enough with the virus to seek medical help, and divide the number of deaths from the virus by that number. And deaths are a lot harder to miss, so except for people who die of the virus at home, deaths are much less under-reported.
