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I looked at the site you posted. The number of new positive daily tests is holding steady. The number of total tests per day is increasing. Therefore, the percentage of positive daily tests is decreasing. Thus, the downward trend in the 7 day moving average percentage of positive cases is because the number of daily tests is increasing, not because the number of positive daily tests are decreasing (because they appear relatively constant). Do you even stats, bro?
yes, more tests overall to find the same amount of positive cases means it is becoming harder to find aka its going away.
thank you. gald you finally got there!
No, it means the number of new cases is remaining nearly constant.
I invite you to contact them with both of our interpretations of the graph.
it actually means the number of positive tests remains nearly constant (also means number of negative tests is growing) but i'm not going to even try to present the concept of multiple positive tests comign from the same person
you're clearly struggling as it is
i'm glad you're on record being this ignorant though. maybe it's good that some of you are this easy to fool
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/pdf/covidview-06-05-2020.pdfSome fun facts from the CDC.
The percentage of
specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,
continue to decline or remain stable at low levels.Mortality attributed to COVID-19 also decreased compared to last week
but remains elevated above baseline and may increase as additional death certificates are processed.o Nationally, visits to outpatient providers and emergency departments (EDs) for illnesses with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 continued to decline or remain stable at low levels. Outpatient ILI visits are below baseline nationally and in all regions of the country.
The decrease in the percentage of people presenting for care with ILI and CLI may be due to a decline in COVID-19 illness, which could be in part a result of widespread adoption of social distancing, in addition to decreases in healthcare seeking behavior. Nationally, the percentages of laboratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 with a molecular assay decreased compared to last week; however, there are two developments in particular worth noting:
1 –
The percent positivity increased in four HHS surveillance regions: Region 4 (
the southeast), Region 6 (
the south central), Region 9 (
the west coast) and Region 10 (
the Pacific northwest).
2 - While the number of specimens from children <18 years of age tested is low (<5% of all specimens tested in public health and commercial laboratories),
the percentage testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in this age group continued to either trend upward or remain relatively stable while other age groups have seen consistent declines in percent positivity in recent weeks.
And some race related findings:
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons have a (hospitalization) rate approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic White persons, non-Hispanic Black persons have a rate approximately 4.5 times that of non-Hispanic White persons, while Hispanic or Latino persons have a rate approximately 3.5 times that of non-Hispanic White persons.