Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states [Vermont, Virginia until recently] are doing the same. "The intermingling of viral and antibody tests suggests that some of those gains might be illusory."
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One test (PCR) diagnoses acute infection: are you sick now? The other (antibody) detects past infection: have you ever been sick? If the CDC and some states combine them, we have no idea if the epidemic is growing now or we're looking at the past. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ …pic.twitter.com/FzJv8JAlkO
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What was once one of the premier public health organizations in the world is producing uninterpretable numbers. Painful. And this is why we need solid journalism. Journalists uncovered this. A public radio station in Miami. A newspaper in Richmond. My colleagues at The Atlantic.pic.twitter.com/uNFJqpkBnO
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They did the same thing in AZ. Someone asked me how to interpret it and I told them you can't
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let's do a short Ta-Nahesi Coates honorary 'talk to me like I'm stupid' on this? want to share w/my elders who think it's over. It's not inherently self-explanatory WHY mixing data types is wrong.
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I feel sick (in an existential way).
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