SvennoJ on 26 March 2022
| haxxiy said: So Shanghai yesterday had over 1,500 asymptomatic cases and like 50 symptomatic cases. This is a pattern repeating itself all over China. Why, would you ask? Because if a case is "asymptomatic" it isn't counted as a Covid case in the official tallies... |
At least they're still testing. We've basically moved to self reporting and only vulnerable and essential people get tested now.
Experts worry that detecting new waves in time will become the next problem
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/experts-worry-about-how-u-s-will-see-next-covid-19-surge-coming-1.5834493
They site US, but it's not different here.
Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don't bode well:
- As more people take rapid COVID-19 tests at home, fewer people are getting the gold-standard tests that the government relies on for case counts.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon use fewer labs to look for new variants.
- Health officials are increasingly focusing on hospital admissions, which rise only after a surge has arrived.
- A wastewater surveillance program remains a patchwork that cannot yet be counted on for the data needed to understand coming surges.
- White House officials say the government is running out of funds for vaccines, treatments and testing.
