1 min readApr 3, 2020
I see, thanks for confirming this. I’d interpret that as quite possibly a small percentage of the “suspected” cases were actual cases, or true cases. I’d be very surprised if they used a test with less than 50% certainty of correctly diagnosing the disease. It’d open up massive problems of false negatives, which would be dangerous. Of course assuming it was really 40%, then your arguments hold. But that’d be scary to be honest.