03-23-2020, 12:24 PM
(03-23-2020, 11:44 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-23-2020, 11:30 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: This is something that is frustrating me, they changed the methodology for reporting, almost all of the new cases (like what 15 of 16) are "presumptive"...which means they haven't tested positive, but are believed to have the disease, which means we cannot compare this with preivious results where only positive tests are reported.
The government needs to make clear why this change is made (it makes sense, but it should be clarified why now), and how this number can be taken in context of the previous.
Right now, the reporting is useless, and the number is useless, and it has shock value...frankly, it's probably the worst thing I've seen on the COVID stuff locally since Ford's March break fiasco.
That's right. There are only two positive tests in the latest batch. I expect some of the 13 presumed positives to be confirmed, but whether it's 1 of 13 or 12 of 13 is anyone's guess.
We can maybe compare this (five total presumed+confirmed cases per day) to the future reports, but, as Dan says, it's not comparable to the previous reports -- or to the Ontario reports, which include only confirmed cases.
A "presumed" case means that they have tested positive but have not yet had the results of the second, confirming test, no?