[BostonCard]

In mid-June, President Trump reportedly joked, "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually."   I find it ironic that California is proving him right.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it still fall?  I mean, excepting the asymptomatic patients, most of the untested patients with COVID-19 will still feel like crap and, more importantly, will still infect others.  Thankfully, they will also develop immunity.

Number of cases has never been a great metric, because we've always known that there are many people who go undiagnosed.  The things to look at have always been percent positivity, hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths.

BC

[BostonCard]

In mid-June, President Trump reportedly joked, "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually."   I find it ironic that California is proving him right.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it still fall?  I mean, excepting the asymptomatic patients, most of the untested patients with COVID-19 will still feel like crap and, more importantly, will still infect others.  Thankfully, they will also develop immunity.

Number of cases has never been a great metric, because we've always known that there are many people who go undiagnosed.  The things to look at have always been percent positivity, hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths.

BC