When the talking heads state the number of new cases of the wuhan, does that mean the number of people tested positive or the number of people tested positive and then hospitalized? In not providing a definition of “new cases,” the talking heads are avoiding the point of “flattening the curve” which is to reduce the number of new hospitalizations, so it’s a good bet that the number of “new cases” is merely the number of Americans newly tested positive, among about 50,000,000 Americans who have been infected by the wuhan virus beginning in December of 2019, five months of its spread.
