User talk:Brted

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Again, welcome! The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 20:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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Should antigen tests be counted?
I looked through some articles about Wikipedia policy on COVID-19, and besides the obvious stuff (don't use worldometers, list origin as Wuhan, etc.) I don't see if there's any policy of whether antigen tests count as "confirmed cases". I know that a lot of US states, such as New York and 36 other states, include antigen tests in their total. Therefore Wikipedia counts these as cases. But Georgia, which does report its antigen positives alongside the PCR case count, is listed on Wikipedia as having 380,000 cases instead of 417,000 right now. Should the antigen count be included? I hope you respond. TheNavigatrr (talk) 02:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Since the antigen test doesn't know when a person may have been exposed, it doesn't seem like a good fit for the day-to-day chart and could be accused of inflating the totals. The day to day numbers seem to be the ones being reported by the media. Brted (talk) 21:10, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You may be mistaking antigen tests for antibody tests. Antigen tests are rapid tests which diagnose a current infection, while antibody tests determine if there are antibodies in the blood from a current or past infection. TheNavigatrr (talk) 03:31, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You're right. I'm not sure why Georgia DPH tabulates them separately, but I'm going to keep going with the number they call "Confirmed Cases" Brted (talk) 17:58, 14 November 2020 (UTC)