Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, recognizes there could be issues with the way test data report that need to be considered when it comes to COVID-19 testing.
“We’re seeing the symptomatic percent positive go up pretty substantially,” said Sickbert-Bennett. “That’s not reflected in that overall percent positive number because it’s being diluted by the asymptomatic testing, which is a very small fraction that ends up being positive.”
She also said “sometimes those many positive cases per day might represent duplicates from two days ago or the week before…we see this a lot in public health that we might sometimes have to change our strategy.”
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