If someone tests positive for Covid, and then quarantines for a week or two, and then gets retested and tests positive again, does the CDC count that as two positive tests? Or is only the initial positive counted? In other words, is the number of positive cases the CDC reports every day, only new cases, or does it also include people who may be getting retested before they have fully recovered?

every positive test is reported as a positive test...no matter how many times the same person tests and retests positive.

What's your source on that?

cc_ag92 said:

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What's your source on that?

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That's factual. Talking to the agencies in charge of reporting the data for the local counties. There is no distinction between someone testing once and someone testing several times to get a negative test to return to work. Every test is reported and every positive is reported as a unique positive.

Except that's not what I've read or seen reported by doctors or reporting sites, so I'm asking for something that contradicts it other than randoms on TexAgs

For clarification, my daughter tested positive onsite 24 days ago. She was assigned a case number and they collected identifying information. If she tested again a week later, she would be considered the same "case."

Now, if she tests positive next February, she would be considered a new case because that would be a new case of Covid.

But, if someone has evidence of a different procedure, I'm interested in reading about it.

cc_ag92 said:

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Except that's not what I've read or seen reported by doctors or reporting sites, so I'm asking for something that contradicts it other than randoms on TexAgs

For clarification, my daughter tested positive onsite 24 days ago. She was assigned a case number and they collected identifying information. If she tested again a week later, she would be considered the same "case."

Now, if she tests positive next February, she would be considered a new case because that would be a new case of Covid.

But, if someone has evidence of a different procedure, I'm interested in reading about it.

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There's an easy way to test this. TX covid excel data shows both # of positive tests and positive cases. If each new test is a new case, these should generally be a 1:1 match.

But they're not.

https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/additionaldata.aspx

Ttends tab shows daily new cases in column E. Tests by day tab shows # of tests in column C.

For 11/23, 6,576 new cases and 12,354 positive test results.

cc_ag92 said:

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Except that's not what I've read or seen reported by doctors or reporting sites, so I'm asking for something that contradicts it other than randoms on TexAgs

For clarification, my daughter tested positive onsite 24 days ago. She was assigned a case number and they collected identifying information. If she tested again a week later, she would be considered the same "case."

Now, if she tests positive next February, she would be considered a new case because that would be a new case of Covid.

But, if someone has evidence of a different procedure, I'm interested in reading about it.

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I know this as fact due to being in meetings with the Director of the Health District for our Region and discussing this exact issue in the numbers.

So how does that work when looking at the DSHS site and there are more positive tests than cases?