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I think you may have this backwards? As testing rates increase, we would expect the positivity rate to go down, as you are now testing more people who have neve
by jkubicek 6y ago
I think you may have this backwards? As testing rates increase, we would expect the positivity rate to go down, as you are now testing more people who have never contracted COVID. The more testing we're doing, the more we expect the positivity rate to approach the actual percentage of infected folks.
If you're only testing people in hospitals and reporting systems, you're going to have a much higher positivity rate.