CDC mixes up Coronavirus data: They mistakenly mixed together the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country's disease totals

This is a very big mistake, making it looking like the problems with the disease are much bigger than they actually are.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged Thursday that it is combining the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country's testing totals, despite marked differences between the tests. . . . 

"The viral testing is to understand how many people are getting infected, while antibody testing is like looking in the rearview mirror. The two tests are totally different signals," Jha told The Atlantic. 

In a statement, CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund told The Hill that when the agency began to track coronavirus testing, viral tests were far more commonly used nationwide than serology testing." 

"Now that serology testing is more widely available, CDC is working to differentiate those tests from the viral tests and will report this information, differentiated by test type, publicly on our COVID Data Tracker website in the coming weeks," she said. . . .