• New York increased testing a lot (blue bars), but at the same time saw the number of cases (yellow bars) fall.
• Or summarized in one metric: the positive rate of tests declined.
[source forward.ny.gov/percentage-pos…]
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The rate of positive tests is now at 8.7%.
[at the source you can compare the US with other countries ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…]
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