So all these positive tests/new cases???

4 downvotes?

Why?

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OP is all over the place and hard to read?

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I don't think so. He's simply questioning why all of a sudden we have a much higher rate of people testing positive.

Even 10 percent for a "pandemic" seems low to me, though.

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OP is all over the place and hard to read?

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It is definitely all over the place, but you can understand. Title should be changed to "Questions I have about all the COVID testing and new cases"

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No increase in death rate or hospitalizations

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There have been many states that have an increase in hospitalizations and uptick nationally, fyi. We need to give it a couple weeks though to see if these are just people going in and staying a night or if they are staying extended and really sick. Also, death rate will certainly be one to watch as we get info over the next two weeks as well.

It will be interesting to see the data at the end of July for sure. If deaths/day stays relatively flat with the increase in positive cases, we could have more solid data that points to exactly what they are calling a COVID death....and might be time to start to look back at all the deaths we call COVID.

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Could the tests include a test for an enzyme or such common in 10% of population?

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unlikely

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I’m curious because what other killing sickness has no symptoms in 80% or higher of those that get it? No symptoms makes no sense to me?

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the most common symptom of most viruses is believed an asymptomatic infection. This is because we have an immune system geared to fight 1) everything at a basic level 2) specific things at a high level. The reason this is called a "novel" Coronavirus is that there basically isn't any part of it that a human immune system has seen before. So the "good" form of immunity lags behind the basic form, and symptomatic cases tend to be worse based on how big a "dose" of virus the person got and how good their primary immune system is

(I'm of course speaking general and more of this is theorized than backed by any particular textbook chapter that can point to source data to be critiqued. I do generally agree with the notion)

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And what other killer disease doesn’t afflict those with O type blood?

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Well, when describing killer illnesses based on blood type, it's easy to point to malaria. Malaria essentially can't/doesn't infect people with sickle cell trait. It's not a perfect correlation of "list all the diseases that don't affect a certain blood type," but it meant to be an example for the case that different red blood cell morphology can play an impact in infectious disease.
How? You've got me. It's an observation to date and will, in the future, undergo scrutiny and find one of a few things
Maybe RBC actually have an active role in immunity
Maybe the virus has to replicate in red cells and the type O blood doesn't have the appropriate transporter
Maybe something about the anti-A/anti-B antibodies that are floating around in your Type O folks confer immunity that isn't there from anti A or B alone.
Maybe something about the same antibodies in combo interfere with the assay

I, for one, don't test blood type in my sick patients. I haven't read the data that's based on. It wouldn't be surprising to me if in the future it was found that there were cases in that population.

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Could the test be inaccurate because it tests for things besides COVID common in many of us?

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Check for the word "specificity" in the supplemental data of the test you are referring to and look at what it was compared against to establish the standard. Remember: 90% specific may sound pretty good to a layperson, but 1/10 cases being false positives is pretty awful. No pcr test I am aware of has a particularly low specificity. I also would need to scrutinize how the standard was established, but I think you'll see that there is a range in specificity alone. False positives on PCR are relatively rare, in general. The clinical relevance of a "case" however varies quite widely is: not all positives are the same. A positive in a healthy 25 year old is negligibly important to global health outside of their ability to infect an at-risk person.

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Are there any doctors that can answer this that haven’t been corrupted by additional monies paid for positive tests/hospitalized/dead COVID cases?

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Hi.

hey stop it you are not supposed to figure that out

what is wrong with you lol!!!

Now do deaths

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we could have more solid data that points to exactly what they are calling a COVID death....and might be time to start to look back at all the deaths we call COVID.

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I started a thread a while back that linked a local news story which had been picked up nationally. Headline "Family Mourns Healthy Teenager Who Died Suddenly from COVID 19"

- Healthy Teenager was a morbidly obese 13 year old, easily max out a bathroom scale obese.

- Healthy Teenager was undiagnosed, untreated type 2 diabetic. Their blood sugar was 1500 upon presenting at the ER with "unexplained lethargy"

- Healthy Teenager suffers multiple organ failure and dies. Test comes back positive, cause of death COVID.

Print the headline.

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4 downvotes?

Why?

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You are grasping at straws to validate your predetermined narrative.

Just like every other Trump fanboy.

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You are grasping at straws to validate your predetermined narrative.

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No. He’s just paying attention. You should, too.