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FromTheRafters

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On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:56:18 -0400, FromTheRafters
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:31:38 -0500, Jim Joyce
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Oklahoma does have a statistic to be proud of, though. Over the past two
days, of the people who have been tested, 100% have been positive. That's
the first time we've seen that.

All that tells me is they are only testing people suspected of having
the virus.

It figures that you would get somethng like that from something not
even saying that.

How else do you explain a 100% positive rate. Does EVERYONE in
Oklahoma have Covid? If so this should be over for them in a few weeks
one way or the other.

I can't explain it, but the conclusion you jumped to is not the only
way to make statistics work for whatever agenda one might have. Maybe
the testing facility got contaminated, maybe somebody is fudging the
numbers. How can a test with a high purported false positive and false
negative propensity give any 100 percent result with a large enough
data set to be meaningful?