On March 16, 2020 at a media briefing the WHO Director-General sent out a message that was spread through headlines around the world. [1, 2, 3]
“We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test. Test every suspected case.”
Testing reportedly is “the only way to really understand how much the coronavirus is spreading” because so many people, allegedly, do not experience symptoms.
Out of this testing frenzy, cases of COVID-19 positive people (not necessarily symptomatic) soared, and each test became a case statistic adding to the cumulative tally COVID-19 “CASES”.
The PCR was the test used to determine a “case” and it was considered globally as the “gold standard” for diagnosing/determining a “case” statistic. [4]
Death rates did not follow the massive rise in “cases”.
In students: “nobody is dying from these cases.”