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Old 07-12-2020, 09:44 PM
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From the Florida state report website:

"The percent of positive results ranged from 11.25% to 18.35% over the past 2 weeks and was 11.25% yesterday

This percent is the number of people who test PCR- or antigen-positive for the first time divided by all the people tested that day, excluding people who have previously tested positive."

This seems to indicate that they don't double-count the positives when calculating what they call percent positivity.