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[–] Hydronium 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

These are positive antibody tests, not tests for active infection. This should always be specified up front. Increasing numbers of people who have been exposed is expected; its contagious. It appears that many people are not vulnerable to infection at all; perhaps they are immune consequent to infection by a somewhat related virus. “New cases” are really newly confirmed previous exposures that elicited an immune response. These include large numbers of people who had mild symptoms, or no symptoms. Others will have experienced a nasty respiratory illness with a walking pneumonia persisting for several weeks. Some of these will have serious complications, especially if they already have another co-occurring respiratory illness.

Even increasing perCENTages of positive antibody tests are a reflection of the cumulative numbers exposed over time, which will only go down after transmission reaches zero.

These articles are still extremely misleading, and in effect inaccurate, given the failure to explain what the numbers represent. I couldn’t believe it three months ago, and it’s really vexing now. It’s so important, unthinkable to politicize it. The data prove, to me, that the response was all wrong, while the reporting is still managing to endanger those at high risk who are now unable to sift through the misinformation.

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