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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree with PP. If you go to coronavirus.maryland.gov, you will see that Maryland just administered 28K tests per day.  It used to be less than 5K. Catching more cases is only natural. The positivity rate has been stable, NOT increasing. In MoCo positivity rate continues to drop, not as fast as before, but that's expected as positivity rate dips below 4%.[/quote]

No.  In Maryland, we are having to test more and more and more to keep that positivity rate under 5%.   That means that cases are increasing.

Look at this graph showing positivity rate and number of tests.  See how we have been able to keep the positivity rate below 5%.... only by testing more and more people.   The past month there's a rise in number of tests.

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The reason we have to keep testing more and more people to get a 5% positivity rate is that cases are climbing!

Low positivity is an indiciation that your state is doing a good job of trying to catch all the cases.  But the other factor you need to consider is how many cases there are, in fact, in your state.

The number of cases in MD is RISING.  It isn't rising because we are testing more.  It is rising because more people are getting the virus.

These are the goals we want to look for:  Positivity rate of 2% AND new cases per million of 30 per day, or fewer.   If we have 5% positivity rate that isn't stable in the long run.

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