CBS-17 reports that one of the key COVID-19 numbers the state wants to be stable before further restrictions are lifted June 1 might be less valuable now than it was a few months ago. The test positivity rate — the percentage of tests found to be positive — hinges on how frequently people are being tested for the virus.
David Weber, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said with testing levels consistently near multi-month lows, the percent positive “may not be as reliable a number of the number of cases that are really occurring.”