She has been conducting COVID-19 tests. She brought up some very interesting points.
1) Mayo system they are individually able to test up to maybe 100/people per day. She's a bit surprised to hear certain facilities are doing thousands/day.
2) People who test positive MUST have 2 negative tests to return to work. Her point is an individual may test positive multiple times prior to getting 2 negative tests in a row. She believes these all count as POSITIVE results. They are not filtered by department of health. So one person may count as 3 positive results. So statistically it appears as if 3 people tested positive instead of the one individual. This is also done over time so it appears as if it's not improving instead of monitoring over time.
3) MN Dept of Health also has a category on daily statistics titled unknown/missing. There was a day of high positive total cases and 90% were in this category. Her question was "What is that? Why are they in the total positive count if they are unknown or missing?" "Something is not right."
Food for thought from a frontline HCP.
1) Mayo system they are individually able to test up to maybe 100/people per day. She's a bit surprised to hear certain facilities are doing thousands/day.
2) People who test positive MUST have 2 negative tests to return to work. Her point is an individual may test positive multiple times prior to getting 2 negative tests in a row. She believes these all count as POSITIVE results. They are not filtered by department of health. So one person may count as 3 positive results. So statistically it appears as if 3 people tested positive instead of the one individual. This is also done over time so it appears as if it's not improving instead of monitoring over time.
3) MN Dept of Health also has a category on daily statistics titled unknown/missing. There was a day of high positive total cases and 90% were in this category. Her question was "What is that? Why are they in the total positive count if they are unknown or missing?" "Something is not right."
Food for thought from a frontline HCP.
