COVID case counts are total nonsense — hospitalizations, deaths are what matterBy NY Post Editorial Board
April 17, 2022
Congratulations to our public health masterminds for finally catching up with the reality that raw COVID case numbers are worse than useless as a metric.
A new survey of adults in New York City suggests that our testing regime may have missed more than 1.3 million cases between January and March of this year. The numbers also suggest that an astonishing 27% of the city’s adults may have been infected during that time.
This massive statistical whiff also means that the official positivity rate — the number by which entire sectors of our economy lived and died for two years, the number that shut schools and sent paroxysms of terror through the media — was near-meaningless as a measurement.
And that, from the start, and particularly since the time vaccines were rolled out, we should have been paying more attention to actual bad outcomes from infection.
That is, hospitalizations and deaths. Those are what matter.
If someone gets a mild flu and recovers in 24 hours, no one panics. But a few asymptomatic COVID cases in a city school were enough, for months, to shut classrooms and trigger insane quarantine protocols.
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/17/covid-case-counts-total-nonsense/
