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Originally Posted by Frenchy
What's the testing availability like in KC? In my city they've closed two of the test centers (one that got results back to you in 48 hours). Our current centers are all backlogged and notoriously inaccurate. Not saying that's what's happening in KC, but once that happened in my city I've pretty much disregarded the data they've reported since.
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That I could not say. The problem is we have the various counties and voards for both health and school using the %positive rate as the key metric to opening schools. I won't get into why I think they are latching onto that particular metric but there are reasons and it is a very easily manipulated stat.
The point being I don't think the %positive rate has increased but rather that the number of tests given has shrunk significantly thus keeping or inflating the %positive rate. Classic case of 1 out of 100 = 1% but 1 out of 50 = 2%.