Experts: Virus numbers could be erratic after Thanksgiving

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The U.S. crossed 13 million coronavirus cases on Friday. The numbers reported over the next week or so are likely to be erratic, experts say, as fewer people get tested during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Vehicles line up as a healthcare worker helps to check in as citizens is being tested at the COVID-19 drive-thru testing center at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Sunday, November 22, 2020.

The result could be potential dips in reported infections that offer the illusion that the spread of the virus is easing when, in fact, the numbers say little about where the nation stands in fighting COVID-19. Dr. Mark Rupp, professor and chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, said the effect of Thanksgiving is likely to be a magnified version of the weekend figures. The Thursday holiday will exacerbate the record-keeping discrepancies over the long weekend, artificially depressing the reported numbers for four or five days before spiking as test results catch up.

In several states and cities, health officials said they anecdotally saw people getting tested before deciding to travel or gather for Thanksgiving meals. They warned that the tests are often a snapshot, not a complete assurance that someone has not been exposed to the virus.

 

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What a joke they tell people to stay home, not to celebrate thanksgiving, but you one can protest everyday and that’s not a factor for spreading... so naive

danisaur19 So what? Mortality is plummeting and recovery rate is 99.97%... just like the flu. Covidiocy

Why the fuck would you get tested?🤷🏼‍♂️

AP, there are no experts. This virus has baffeled all your so called experts.

Yawn

what is a case if it be dismissed or thrown out ?... quit counting cases and count the verdict .. death 😁😂☠️ them case number mean nothing to me if most of them still living

Shocker!

Every false positive must count

Ppl should start unfollowing you ... You've become trash propaganda. was Trump REALLY fk'g worth losing all respect?

And still at a 99.8% survival rate 🤷‍♂️

You can't test your way out of this situation *UNLESS* you can test yourself instantly and continuously.

Funny. We should start calculation of flu infections the way we do with Wuhan Flu, it'll scare the piss out of everyone hooked on msm

Remember that every infection could spell a possibly unwanted death.

Fewer people tested= more people walking around spreading the virus. In any case, many would not isolate if positive.

It will be the fault if those who traveled, non makers, had big gatherings. It's their faults that more Americans are dying and businesses going under. It's shameful

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Thanks to your 'christian' supreme court judge drumming up business for God. It wont be fewer that die.

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CDC COVID Survival Rates: 0-19: 99.997% 20-49: 99.98% 50-69: 99.5% 70+: 94.6%

Remember when realDonaldTrump said on February 26th that we’d have close to zero cases in a couple days? 🤣

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Thanks a lot Obama

Trumps.....America first

How many people have tested positive for being asymmetric in any way? Are they dying?

Fake

It's painfully obvious that we are all going to be infected by covid-19. Some sooner...some later.

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