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Originally Posted by GoodLife
I also think part of the surge is coming from workplace testing. Average age for people who work is 42, and many businesses are testing their employees as they open up.
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I used percent positive because it's a measure of how prevalent the virus is in a given population. Increasing the
number of people tested whether it be from the workplace or anywhere else and seeing a corresponding increase in the
number of positives is a completely different metric. That would be a measure of the prevalence of testing whereas the percent positive is a measure of the prevalence of the virus.
It's interesting to see the median age of those testing positive drop so precipitously to a cohort that statistically remains symptom-free. So the data we really need to see is daily rate of hospitalizations and the daily death rate to conclude whether or not we're getting this thing under control.
I'm not able to find hospitalization or death rates over time for Florida - only aggregate figures. Have you been able to find it, Goodlife?