States Use Many Different Types Of COVID-19 Tests : COVID Tests Results Are COMBINED In Test Reporting Results ! ! I could write a book by now, the bottom line is they have developed many different types , brands and techniques. A person could be tested by one or all of these methods. The results are reported as a Sum.  NOT one case per person. In other words if you test five times with five different Tests, its five results not one "CASE" . Each person is not tracked as a single case.  Do You See Where This Is Going ? They are testing like crazy, by design, to INFLATE THE NUMBERS.  Big Surprise, right ?