[ April 30, 2024 ]
The Democrats will go to any lengths, no matter how dishonest, deceitful and destructuiive, to destroy the country, our freedoms, our proxy —> our President.
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Virginia to begin double-counting multiple positive coronavirus cases
The new policy may serve to sharply drive up case numbers, which may in turn significantly delay the re-opening of the state.
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Virginia this week will begin counting multiple positive coronavirus tests in the same patient as new individual cases of the disease, a policy decision likely to significantly drive up reported case numbers in a state that has been relatively spared the worst of the pandemic so far.
The state government announced on Saturday a policy change to its coronavirus data metrics. Health officials will begin reporting “the number of unique people tested per day rather than the number of unique people who have been tested at any point during the response,” the new policy states.
“We know individual people, especially healthcare workers and those in high-risk settings, may be tested more than once over time. This new method of providing test data also allows us to provide the number of tests per day,” the policy continues, adding: “We believe these data to be a better representation of SARS-CoV-2 testing in Virginia, and a better guide to the public and policy-makers as they assess availability.”
At a press conference on Friday, State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver gave an example of a single patient being tested four times for COVID-19. “What we’re doing now is, we’re counting all four tests,” Oliver said. “That’s the difference.”
What was unclear from the new policy is whether or not each positive test result would be counted as a new case of coronavirus altogether rather than merely a new test. The Virginia Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard displays the total number of cases in the state, the total number of tests performed, and the total number of “unique people tested” by state officials.
Reached via email on Monday morning, Joe Macenka, a spokesman for Virginia’s COVID-19 Joint Information Command, confirmed that each positive case of the disease would be counted as a new case altogether. “If a person is tested on different days, those tests are counted as separate,” he said.
Pressed to clarify the policy, Macenka said that repeat positive cases “are counted as separate cases only if the tests occur on different days. If [a Virginia resident] tested Monday and Tuesday and both are positive, that’s two positives.”
Re-opening of state tied to declining case numbers
That policy may serve to sharply drive up case numbers, which may in turn significantly delay the re-opening of the state. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has stated that the state will begin its first phase of re-opening only when state officials have logged 14 straight days of declining case numbers and hospitalizations.
The governor last week did allow elective surgeries in the state to resume, though the state’s stay-at-home order, which is set to last until June 10, is still in place.
Virginia has been hit relatively lightly by the coronavirus pandemic compared to many other states. According to Worldometers, it ranks 21st in the country for deaths per one million residents, and 20th for cases.
Last month State Health Commissioner Oliver claimed that the initial “Phase One” of re-opening the state might take up to two years, though state officials quickly disavowed that estimate and said Oliver had misspoken.
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21 Comments
3 years ago
Lying and cheating is just second-nature to Demonrats.
3 years ago
ludicrous.
3 years ago
More meaningless numbers.
3 years ago
If the true numbers of deaths attributed to Chinese virus were known, they would probably be only half or lower than what is reported. Now they are also lying about the number of infections. All this is done in an attempt to make Trump look bad.
3 years ago
He’s a Rolling Garbage Truck, he needs his tires flattened.
“More Laws, Less Justice”
………Marcus Cicero
(even the Romans Knew all about the Northam ilk )
3 years ago
Faking data …
… when I first saw Lefties faking data
… no one would believe me
Now they fake it publicly and laugh in our faces …
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Yeah, it is very difficult. Fake data, fake polls, who knows what the real numbers are.
Then there is 538 where some of them seem to actually try to find out what the real numbers are, but their leftist bias is so strong that they often end up being a few points wrong without their realizing that their own bias is skewing the results.
3 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Absolutely, that too … an observer’s intrinsic bias is always a problem, but we know full well there are known techniques to detect such a bias and root it out – given the time, effort, and need to do so. Lefties have no such excuse in most cases – their research is funded by our tax dollars, advertisers on MSM, the profits donated to them from our businesses paying them protection, and from their Big Donors … they can afford to do quality work if they want to. (And a few did once upon a time, but that’s been awhile)
… you and yours have a wonderful week, AA!
3 years ago
Folks, we will NEVER know the ‘true’ numbers on any of the metrics. Whether it’s testing, positive results, recoveries, deaths that were actually caused by COVID-19 and not something else… our warped political world will NEVER allow us to know. Democrats are having a field day with this and the longer it drags on, the better, as far as they are concerned. The focus that SHOULD be placed on China is instead turned on President Trump. It will be this way until the election, or the financial destruction of America, whichever comes first.
3 years ago
Why not? The CDC is bribing hospitals to attribute the death of any patient to coronavirus instead of as a contributing factor, or comorbidity, as may actually be the case with pre-existing conditions.
It recently happened with my wife’s uncle. Also, for the first time I can ever remember, two obituaries in this past Sunday’s Dallas paper, one for a 75 year old woman and a man of 83, had coronavirus listed as the cause of death. BS!
3 years ago
SOOooo! According to the “NEW” way of counting, a person can be counted 7 times in one week. IF that one person is found to have been infected with the CCPFlu, that person will be counted 7 times. This is ASSinine!!!!!!
3 years ago
HELLO DR. NORTHAM – HELLO MR. NORTHAM
HOW DO YOU SEPARATE THE CORPSES ???
3 years ago
If they fake data then they are committing a crime as they will ask the Feds for money to off set their expenses for the pandemic.
3 years ago
This is a test …. this is only a test …… real Martial Law will start soon.
3 years ago
Northam is guilty of High Crimes, Treason, and many other ….. Northam MUST be hanged for his High Crimes if I am to believe in “justice” in this country, ever again.
3 years ago
Lying sack of do do
3 years ago
Like Bugs Bunny says…”What a marooooon”.
