re: #176 lizardofid

Good morning everyone!

To justify his opening up of the state, in spite of a lack of decrease in cases, the Governor here in Texas cites the increase in testing. He says the decrease in percentage of positives results is a better indicator. He touts the fact that we started out returning 10% positives, and last week came back at 5%. But I seem to remember that early on the requirements to even get the test you had to have symptoms, and suspected contact.

Might that not skew the results pretty dramatically?

Yeah, he’s playing with stats. It should be the change in positive cases, not the percentage in this case, until we get to where we’re testing a good percentage of the population.