I know two people who no showed their tests then got letters saying they were positive
This is true
Once youre in the testing system, it goes under the premise you're presumed to be infected. If you don't show for your test, they report it because no test result said you were clean.
This is also financially motivated.
Often, the testing center has a time window they hold for you. The only way they get reimbursed for their time allotted is to post a status to the system. They consider it dangerous to provide a "clean" status for "no shows", so their only choice is to report it as a SARS-CoV2 positive result/status.
I'd understand that logic to a teeny tiny small degree, other than the fact that it should be reported as "No Show For Testing - Presumed Positive".
If you ever want to freak out with the disparity between social media/press coverage versus cold hard facts, check out the real broken out data from cdc. It comes out each Wednesday.
Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, ***, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.
www.cdc.gov
Only 6% of cases are definitely covid. The others cases are people with covid in their system plus, on average, about 3 OTHER known causes!
More fascinating... the cdc reports deaths from all causes, every year.
With a population that's growing in size, but also aging, total deaths have gone up each and every year from, at least, 2009. It's been about 2.85 million prior to covid.
2020 total deaths, when annualized, would be about 2.76 million--- the first death downtrend since 2009.
Mortality in the United States, 2016
www.cdc.gov
But if youre old, or have serious co-morbidities, be f-n careful!!!
See y'all at the game--- GO CANES!!!