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Any news article that mentions the number of new positive cases without mentioning the number of new tests is doing it for the clicks. One is fairly useless wi

• mikeyouse 6y ago
  The second metric is obviously more important, but when a pandemic as an Ro of more than 1, any increasing number of cases is a huge issue. Hence why the hospitalizations are on the way up, which is also reported in that article..
• jiveturkey 6y ago
  you've actually got it backwards. 150 cases out of 150 tests mean that testing isn't indicative of the infection rate, and is a yawner because the test itself is telling us almost nothing.
• ihumanable 6y ago
  This tool is useful https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states California has been increasing raw number of tests but the positive tests percentage has been holding relatively steady around 4.5% https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/california https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/califo... Florida is a much different story, as their cases have increased the testing has not kept up, and the positive test rate has gone from 2.3% at the end of May to 12.2% https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florid... One thing that everyone should keep in mind, even if you could attribute all of the increase in confirmed cases to testing, tests don't give anyone the coronavirus. The only thing increased testing can do is give you a more accurate picture of how bad the situation is, it can't make the situation worse.