You go to a doctor and get tested. It’s positive - so that’s a “case”. You go back a few days later and get tested again and it’s positive - another “case” but it’s the same person. God forbid you get hospitalized, you get tested at admission and that’s another “case” of positive. We now have 3 cases when it’s just one.

They do not have the ability to differentiate the unique cases by patient - how do I know this? I work w labs and know there is active selling of software to address this.

When you have a lot of the test sites not properly doing the data entry and no mechanism in place to account for multiple results On the same patients - you get inflated numbers. Is this the data you refer to as worthy of “stifling it”?