floyd2 said "positivity rate is a valuable number, but can be misinterpreted without looking at what is happening or being used to calculate these numbers.
ND had over 10,000 tests results vs MB at 2100 from sat reported sunday
ND has a population of 762000 vs MB at 1,369,000
To compare positivity rate to positivity rate MB would of had to do 18,000 tests on sat
ND has done 1,084800 tests MB 333,694. 56% of the population and 3 times the tests.
My wife works in ND and every staff member in her facility was being tested twice a week. Symptom or no symptom. Now they are testing all residents and staff once a week. Not sure if that is happening in MB.
ND is testing more people so is more likely to be testing people with out symptoms there for, people who are more likely not to have the virus. From what I understand you need symptoms or been in close contact with a positive test person in MB to get tested.
ND has had over 73,000 test positive vs MB at 14000.
Is that because they are testing more? I am guessing some of the reason.
Or is it because of they carried on like nothing was out of the norm, (large groups, bars open, no promoted social distancing, no mask mandate to name a few)? I am thinking that is the most likely cause of their high positive test count.
The ND numbers came from https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases "
I understand what you're describing. I'm wondering, however, if there's actually a double-edge sword here.
New CDC numbers suggest that about 50% of all cases are completely asymptomatic. I'm wondering if they're catching lots of asymptomatic people, where we've restricted testing to ONLY symptomatic people.
In that case, assuming our trends are similar to what CDC values are, our case numbers would be much, much higher.
It's also interesting to note that it came out in today's press conference that the number they're reporting in ICU's due to Covid is actually low. They remove cases after the infectious period has passed, even if they're still in the ICU. So the actual number is about 10 higher than currently reported (they weren't absolutely positive), which puts us at about 62/100 ICU beds occupied by Covid vs. 52. Same deal with ventilators.
edit to add: I'm talking about MB hospitals, not ND
Edited by Abbysmum, 2020-11-23 13:59:49