Members of the media establishment in Canada who are reporting daily on COVID-19 and pushing the standard narrative are totally ignorant about the basic facts. Here's the proof.
Alex Boutilier is a national politics reporter for the Toronto Star, the largest newspaper in Canada. He doesn't know what the term 'cases' means in the context of this pandemic. But like the entirety of the mainstream media and the political establishment, he uses the term to push the hysteria and promote the narrative.
From 'Covid-19: the problems with case counting', the British Medical Journal, September 3, 2020: "One issue in trying to interpret numbers of detected cases is that there is no set definition of a case. At the moment it seems that a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive result is the only criterion required for a case to be recognised.
“In any other disease we would have a clearly defined specification that would usually involve signs, symptoms, and a test result,” says Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and the editor of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. “We are moving into a biotech world where the norms of clinical reasoning are going out of the window. A PCR test does not equal covid-19; it should not, but in some definitions it does.” "One issue in trying to interpret numbers of detected cases is that there is no set definition of a case. At the moment it seems that a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive result is the only criterion required for a case to be recognised."
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3374?fbclid=IwAR0CaPq1Z1SzlDoHfqZMt8lvy8_gFjOBU0lxa0kniVyCOXezl9l696fPB1I
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