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Getting back to the topic at hand, I personally don't care if there are debates or not. I find them completely useless in deciding for whom to vote. Biden's record is extensive, Trump's the incumbent and his record the past 3+ years stands for itself, and at this point both Biden and Trump have been vetted. It comes down to whether you feel the country is better off now than it was before Trump started, and how well or not you feel those in power have done their jobs.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests, distorting several important metrics and providing the country with an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic. We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus. The upshot is that the government’s disease-fighting agency is overstating the country’s ability to test people who are sick with COVID-19. The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.
Several states—including Pennsylvania, the site of one of the country’s largest outbreaks, as well as Texas, Georgia, and Vermont—are blending the data in the same way. Virginia likewise mixed viral and antibody test results until last week, but it reversed course and the governor apologized for the practice after it was covered by the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Atlantic. Maine similarly separated its data on Wednesday; Vermont authorities claimed they didn’t even know they were doing this.
The widespread use of the practice means that it remains difficult to know exactly how much the country’s ability to test people who are actively sick with COVID-19 has improved.
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ramage wrote: SC wrote
"That Florida has been reporting its data wrong has been the story since this pandemic began, nothing new there.
. Again, I don't look at cases exclusively, I look at hospitalizations and the lagging deaths following that - you can't fake those. Also, you cannot change the basic fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics of this virus nor the fact that over 135,000 people have died of COVID-19 and that's likely an under-count of COVID-related deaths"
Let's take this one sentence at a time.
" That Florida has been reporting its data wrong has been the story since this pandemic began, nothing new there"
Statement has no factual basis, if you can substantiate this claim please provide the information.
." Again, I don't look at cases exclusively, I look at hospitalizations and the lagging deaths following that - you can't fake those."
Right you can fake deaths, just what the cause of death as listed on the death certificate. Aside from that show us where Florida has a higher number of deaths than New York, NJ Connecticut, etc.
"Also, you cannot change the basic fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics of this virus nor the fact that over 135,000 people have died of COVID-19 and that's likely an under-count of COVID-related deaths."
First validate your premise and then provide the data that shows there is an under count of COVID-related deaths. Please do not refer to statistical models, provide the actual data.
Out of personal curiosity, what are the physics of this virus?
Finally,
" Trump's the incumbent and his record the past 3+ years stands for itself, and at this point both Biden and Trump have been vetted."
By that I take it to mean Trump's record not ad hominem attacks on his personality. I agree let's vote on the basis of the records of the two candidates.
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