[wycy]

Would this indicate that the mortality rate is actually much higher percentage-wise, since the denominator is actually artificially inflated?

[wjnc]

Not that I'd expect, since non-testing in probable positive cases (f.e. in NL those sick, but manageable and in home quarantine are usually not tested) seems to dwarf false-positives in negative cases.

[coding123]

But could that just be the flu.

[andybak]

I think so but wouldn't it also make the transmission rate estimates lower?

[etothet]

That was my thinking as well. I also wonder how many people who ARE symptomatic don't get tested and how much this balances out the false positives of asymptomatic people, if at all.