Now with the dominance of home test kits, people are basically “self-diagnosing” and we don’t have the same visibility on the spread or dominance of the disease or variants.
Likely the only real number we can count are how many people are hospitalized with a COVID-related diagnosis. On that note, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting an 18 percent increase in the seven-day average for hospitalizations.
In talking with a friend, he reported that in a family of four, three have had COVID-19 and exhibited symptoms, and one has not. How that is possible, I don’t know. We surmised that perhaps he had COVID-19 but was not symptomatic.
Another example of why it is difficult to track the progress of the disease in real time.