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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friday, June 5: Good news in a nutshell.. [b]DC [/b]The District will begin offering free walk-up coronavirus testing at firehouses from 4-8 p.m. The [b]trend [/b]for new cases has mostly been [b]flat [/b]since reopening began. On Friday, the District reported 79 new cases of the coronavirus [b]and 0 new deaths[/b], bringing its totals to 9,199 and 475, respectively. [b]MARYLAND [/b][b]Maryland continues to see a flat trend in new coronavirus cases, along with a gradual decline in coronavirus deaths.[/b] [b]VIRGINIA [/b]Virginia’s 7-day average for new cases has now been [b]declining [/b]for six days straight. That’s the longest sustained decline since the pandemic began. Virginia’s 7-day average for coronavirus deaths has [b]dropped [/b]precipitously over the past 11 days. It’s now down to where it was in mid-April. [/quote] How is the trend flat in MD if we have over 900 new cases every day? It's very confusing! [/quote] More testing = more cases that are found and identified. It’s a good thing. It can show where the cases are concentrated and health authorities can keep closer tabs on those areas. That’s why raw number of cases isn’t used as a metric - we can’t compare to even a month ago when testing wasn’t so widely available. Now you can go to a test site or CVS and get a swab and have results in a few days. In early May we could test a few hundred people a day at most and they were all people with symptoms, so the percent positive rate was pretty high. Now we can test people with only vague symptoms or who are just worried about a possible exposure, so the raw number of cases identified is going up, but the positive percentage is going down. [/quote]
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