It’s useful for virologists and policy makers to understand the transmission rate of COVID and its accompanying variants since it’s a novel virus. If unreporte

It’s useful for virologists and policy makers to understand the transmission rate of COVID and its accompanying variants since it’s a novel virus. If unreported cases are 10-50x reported cases, then the hospitalization and death rates become minuscule. And then it means we might actually be closer to natural herd immunity. Point taken about balancing this with a right to privacy though and I think that’s why no one is seriously pushing for reporting at that level and why it is optional to report your at home test results. The use case of contact tracing is long gone. But, there are many valid, non-authoritarian reasons for wanting data as granular as possible with a new virus.