Suspicious timing: Is media's reporting on COVID 'surges' timed to hurt Trump? Suspicious timing: Is media’s reporting on COVID ‘surges’ timed to hurt Trump? What exactly is this current surge? Is it a surge in positive tests, cases, hospitalizations, or deaths? A positive test alone is not a case, according to the CDC. The "case definition" of COVID is a positive test and symptoms. People who might have had a mild case a month ago may still have dead viral particles in their noses, triggering positive tests. Over a million tests per day are performed in the U.S. with acceptable positive rates of under 5 percent. That means 50,000 positive tests per day but most not infectious or symptomatic. More tests means more positive results, what the media call "cases." If the U.S. didn't offer tests on demand as we do now, this so-called surge would go away. According to the New York Times: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/suspicious-timing-is-medias-reporting-on-covid-surges-timed-to-hurt-trump?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard