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Old 02-01-2022, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by dewilson58 View Post
Google is your friend.
According to various sources on Google, there is more than one way to calculate positivity rate. And there is no reference as to how it predicts what percent of the population has an active case of Covid. Not everyone with Covid gets themselves tested. Some people without Covid get tested more than once. And it matters whether that rate is reporting for one day or a rolling average for several days.

Maybe an MD can weigh in on this.