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jmg257

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5. Positive tests rates increasing? Is that good?

Reply to Igel (Reply #4)

Mon May 25, 2020, 08:52 AM

May 2020

Federal officials identified Baltimore and Washington Friday as leading the nation’s metropolitan areas with the highest positive coronavirus testing rates, leading all other urban regions in the ratio of confirmed cases to the number of people swabbed.

Positive rate of coronavirus tests increases as testing drops -Wisconsin

Edit: Ah - nationwide graph.... https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states

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Corona virus still on the rampage? [View all] kentuck May 2020 OP

25000 new US cases May 21...same as April 5th...has it subsided? jmg257 May 2020 #1

Look at the positive test/total test rate. n/t Igel May 2020 #4

Positive tests rates increasing? Is that good? jmg257 May 2020 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2020 #2

We should not be lulled, as some people were during the flu pandemic of 1918. kentuck May 2020 #3

Don't forget the spikes in red states .. ananda May 2020 #6