What scientists think about China changing how it counts coronavirus cases.
in Hubei province, the result was a staggering 14,840 new cases -- and from Wednesday night into Thursday, another 242 deaths.
Experts said they'd long suspected cases in China had been undercounted. In Hubei, the outbreak's epicenter, medical professionals have struggled to keep up with an onslaught of patients, and hospitals without enough test kits have turned people away. "One of the concerns has always been that they don't count the patients who have mild illness, because they don't have the resources to do so," said Dr. Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa.
Through Friday, China had reported a total of 63,851 cases and 1,380 deaths, including those detected using the new criteria.People wear face masks as they wait at Hankou Railway Station on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, China.Previously, cases were reported only when patients tested positive for the virus using a diagnostic test. By expanding the criteria to include so-called clinically diagnosed cases, doctors can diagnose patients without laboratory testing, using methods such as CT lung scans.
On one hand, it's possible that giving doctors the latitude to diagnose without lab tests could provide a more realistic picture of case counts and mortality rates for COVID-19. But on the other hand, CT scans aren't specific to
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