In the spirit of accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive, the number of people who tested negative for COVID-19 will not be announced.
This matters because 300 new cases out of 3,000 tests is an alarming number, but 300 new cases out of 30,000 tests, while a cause for concern, is not alarming. In this case, as in most cases, context is what enables us to think about a number. Numerators without denominators are seldom informative.
Today, like yesterday and tomorrow, news outlets will also announce the new number of COVID-19 deaths, along with the total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 to date.
Here again, context is needed. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention) has a bevy of competent and careful counters. Those
epidemiologists take the time that is necessary to gather the statistics
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