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Old 07-08-2020, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Ga.dawg View Post
Also if you get a positive result and they retest you and it’s still positive. They count that as a new test , so one person could could be counted as several positives results , which is a misleading number
According to the FL Covid web site, the percentages are calculated based on new positives and not people who previously tested positive.

Quote "These counts include the number of people for whom the department received PCR or antigen laboratory results by day. This percent is the number of people who test positive for the first time divided by all the people tested that day, excluding people who have previously tested positive." Unquote.