Comments on: Covid-19: 518 Test Results, None Were Positive

By: Ringmaster

Ringmaster — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:34:22 +0000

Looks impressive, but why can’t they broken down into meaningful numbers? For example, how many are retests of previous retests; how many are visitors; how many are returning residents coming in on flights. 17,000 plus have been completed but how many are residents? Average age is not changing, nor the death age range, and R has to be 0 as there have been no new cases and it’s a meaningless number based on Bermuda’s stats.
It’s all well and good for the Minister to say don’t be complacent, but when several hundred tests a day come back negative, which is suspect as tests are not 100%, it gives the impression Bermuda is back to normal and no precautions need to be taken. No wonder it seems normal out in public, especially on the roads.

By: simple please

simple please — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:17:06 +0000

Do a better job please, in explaining the results in laymans terms because this sounds like to the non-scientist that these folks were positive but maybe only a little and perhaps the end of their bout of the virus, so now they are negative. I could be completely wrong, but without an explanation that I can understand – that’s what I got out of this statement.

If the Minister doesn’t understand the science either, and that is fine as she is a lawyer although I would have hoped was well versed on this by now – have the doctors explain it in everyday language so that Ms. Minister you can explain it in plain English to the rest of us. To most people at this point in time, this all sounds fishy!