Why did we lock down to begin with?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Jito463

No, every one of those articles says that "maybe" they're not being counted. Perhaps you should read the articles, and not just the headlines.

It was pretty common knowledge that only those with confirmed tests were being counted. Let me give you an article to show you when it changed.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/nati...-confirmed-its

A probable case or death is defined as “meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing” for the coronavirus or “meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence or “meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed.”

“As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement issued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists on April 5, 2020. The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease,” the CDC website stated.

Let's go a little more in depth

“A confirmed case or death is defined by meeting confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19. A probable case or death is defined by i) meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19; or ii) meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence; or iii) meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID19,”

Do you believe people that die at home will be able to meet those criteria even when they die from Covid-19? Maybe in some cases, but not in many?

Essentially no one dying at home before this change in guidance in mid April got counted as a Covid-19 death (because they weren't testing dead people due to limited tests)