Silver: "Case counts are meaningless."

[George K]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/

[Mik]

Indeed. It matters very little how many cases we identify. What we need is to know who is infected and you can only do that with massive testing.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik This.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Silver: "Case counts are meaningless.":

Indeed. It matters very little how many cases we identify. What we need is to know who is infected and you can only do that with massive testing.

And if you know the business, the ONLY way that can happen is immunoassay, similar to a pregnancy test. You're not going to do that on PCR platforms and anybody that tells you otherwise is ignorant.

[jon-nyc]

Doesn't it take a while for the immune response to develop enough for the antibody test to work?

IOW, Guy presents in hospital with symptoms, don't you want PCR for that?