• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    If I'm reading that right they did 30k tests and got 6k positives, about 17%. I would consider that enough infection going around to be very concerned. Am I misunderstanding those numbers?

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Well, most people wouldn't get tested unless they have a reason to, e.g. displaying symptoms, so that skews the numbers significantly - there's no broad testing happening anymore, really. Number of infections per 100k population is a more interesting metric - I was curious and put together a line graph of that over the last 12 months.

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      I think the little uptick that we're seeing recently, is just seemingly part of the pattern of steadily reducing number of cases - there's a little bump, followed by a drop. I'm not sure what causes the pattern, though.

      Anyways, the more in-depth reports have lots of information, one I think is particularly interesting is for google trends in COVID symptoms - that hasn't really increased recently. In general, cases, hospitalisations, deaths, and positivity (i.e. the number of tests coming back as positive) are significantly lower now than they were.