Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News? - American Thinker

Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News? - American Thinker--By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
"COVID cases are on the rise, or so we are told daily by a hysterical media. 

Newspaper headlines scream panic as this recent USAToday article proclaimed, “COVID-19 cases rising in 39 states – 9 months into the pandemic: We are overwhelmed.”
...Are cases really on the rise or are these simply positive tests?
The above article, one of many warns, “A startling nine states setting ominous, seven-day records for infections.” 

39 states reported more cases in the last week than they had in the week before.
What exactly is a “case”? 

The USAToday article doesn’t say. 

Neither do other articles or cable news doctors and other “experts.” 

Is a “case” simply a positive test?
The CDC answers this question with a “case definition.” 

A case is not just a positive test. 

Instead what is needed is, “Presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence.” 

Notice the AND, meaning not simply a positive test.
Yet what the media trumpets as “surging cases” are only positive tests...Read all.