I'm becoming more disappointed by the day in the talent we have in public health offices across this country. We are doing a horrible job of tracking the true nature of this virus. The CDC is completely neutered. The public health offices are passing on broken data with no detail. It's bad.
It is highly likely this virus strongly peaked in late March / early April nationally, yet our numbers forever plateau due to how we test and the fact that people who have had it are taking multiple tests in order to be declared recovered (often need 2 consecutive negative tests, separated by two weeks) but are testing off and on positive for a few months due to how PCR is detecting dead virus fragments. Yet each of these positive TESTS is, in most cases, being considered a new CASE. Also, you have states throwing in antibody test results that are showing up as new cases. It's making tracking the pandemic incredibly difficult. And I don't think that it is even a politically motivated thing in a lot of instances. Texas, while increasingly purple, is red at a state level. And they are making a lot of these mistakes.
I do believe we are seeing areas begin to pick up again, but lord it's hard to see it through all this BS noise.
It's very disappointing and concerning.
