Name:   PTClakefan - Subject:   Bad news for leftists just keeps coming Date:   5/18/2020 5:59:29 PM

It would be most helpful to know the ratio of confirmed cases to number of tests performed in a given state over a set period of time to truly know whether the virus is increasing, leveling off or decreasing.  I haven't seen this sort of data, but it surely must be tracked in that manner.  Common sense would suggest that if you are now testing a significantly larger portion of the population, you are going to have more "cases" even though in reality the infection "rate" may be declining.  Just stating the number of "confirmed cases" is a very misleading data point, IMHO.  Likewise with the Covid-19 death rate.  Given the varying degrees of interpretation by doctors and medical examiners as to what constitutes a Covid-19 death, that data, to me, seems almost usless.