Obamot wrote:well answered! nothing personal but it was just to stop talking too much about the PCR test seriously since it is only justified in a hospital environment with medical diagnosis and symptom detection / recording ...!
For "upload the data”... that is the central question of all this health crisis: but “What would be the correct data”? we do not know damn nothing - except drawn from hospital data not being limited to the single test - because based on hospital data with reliable diagnosis, would be the only reasonable and legitimate way to establish a statistic that is credible. But to my knowledge in 2020, it hasn't been done (and hardly even a good part of 2021?). Mass tests only indicate an epidemic outbreak, nothing more, without being able to give its scale scientifically. The PCR test was not intended for that, by the admission of its inventor, Pr Kary Mullis. End of the story
For hospitalization, the data is indeed reported by the PMSI (which gives the famous 450k hospitalizations), for the tests, I also think that there is some form of recovery. The biologist is on vacation, and so am I next week, but I'll ask if there's a lab reporting system.
I do not take it badly, on the contrary, I can give a little enlightened opinions by asking the actors in the field ... and I also use this kind of knowledge in my work, so it's perfect!
It is clear that PCR is not perfect. But perhaps at the start of the pandemic, we had no better way to do it across the country. It's not impossible either!