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Because she is choosing to pick out data that make the US look bad.

The number of positive tests means nothing.  Really.  [b]More testing means more positives.[/b]

The important numbers are hospital bed/ICU utilization and deaths.

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More testing means more positives when there are people in the population who are positive.

If there weren't people in the population who are positive, you could test everybody every day and there wouldn't be more positives.[/quote]

Yep.

And it really doesn’t matter how many people test positive.  What matters is the number of people who test positive, and end up with life-threatening symptoms. [/quote]

Actually it absolutely does matter what percentage of people test positive.

[i]The rate of positivity is an important indicator because it can provide insights into whether a community is conducting enough testing to find cases. If a community’s positivity is high, it suggests that that community may largely be testing the sickest patients and possibly missing milder or asymptomatic cases. A lower positivity may indicate that a community is including in its testing patients with milder or no symptoms. The WHO has said that in countries that have conducted extensive testing for COVID-19, should remain at 5% or lower for at least 14 days.[/i]

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states[/quote]

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