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"No one is mislabeing the flu as covid". There have been 33 million positive coronavirus cases and 444 million tests-- are you sure you want to assert the foll
by fridif 5y ago
"No one is mislabeing the flu as covid".
There have been 33 million positive coronavirus cases and 444 million tests-- are you sure you want to assert the following is true 100% of the time:
1) all covid diagnoses are ONLY covid
2) all flu occurrences are diagnosed, and when they are diagnosed, they are always ONLY diagnosed as flu
- ipaddr 5y agoA covid tests doesn't test if you have something else. A covid test would not detect the flu or a broken leg and label it as covid. Depending in the type of test 1/3 could be false positive. If your theory was false positives are because of flu I'm not sure there is any proof to that theory but I would like to hear more. All flu occurrences were not diagnosed before, this year or will be in our future lifetimes. Your doctor telling you its the flu and to get rest vs getting a positive for a influena A or B test and the percentage that a lab might make a mistake on those tests vs the % of time your doctor is wrong are two very different ways to think about your question. Usually the words 'AlWAYS' and 'ONLY' fail in a big population set.