For any who don’t already know, the statistics to watch are not the ones that are usually reported.
I am disappointed that the media has not been taken to school on this.
The infection RATE (percentage) of new positive-tested cases and the number of new hospitalizations are strong indicators of current local infectious activity.
Those stats show the case pipeline so we can decide what level of concern is appropriate to best protect our own health.
Too often the statistics that are quoted are the NUMBER of positive test results and the number of deaths. Those are often alarming statistics but they are not very useful if you need to know when YOUR risk is increasing or decreasing.
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