Articles for Positivity Rates

You just tested yourself for COVID-19. Should you report the results to L.A. County?
2 years, 5 months ago

You just tested yourself for COVID-19. Should you report the results to L.A. County?

LA Times  

Testing more people more often could help identify outbreaks and limit their spread. But for a variety of reasons, a growing reliance on at-home rapid test kits may not help public health officials in their battle to track the pandemic. A spokeswoman said the Public Health Department “will be documenting and interviewing those that do call us with positive results.” …

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Centre pens letter to states, UTs expressing concerns over fall in COVID-19 testing rates
3 years, 1 month ago

Centre pens letter to states, UTs expressing concerns over fall in COVID-19 testing rates

Firstpost  

All the 13 states and UTs have been given the same advice though each letter mentions state-specific testing details of particular districts and positivity rates Citing multiple surges in coronavirus cases in several countries, the Union health ministry has written to 13 states and Union territories, including West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab, expressing concerns over declining weekly testing rates …

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Do you need to wear a mask where you live? Understand the CDC's new guidance
3 years, 4 months ago

Do you need to wear a mask where you live? Understand the CDC's new guidance

NPR  

Do you need to wear a mask where you live? The agency says people in counties with with a high "COVID-19 community level" should still wear masks indoors; people in counties with low and medium levels can make a choice based on their personal risk level. It encouraged fully vaccinated people to mask up indoors if they live in a …

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Indonesia looked to India on lockdown, but didn’t adopt its policy
3 years, 5 months ago

Indonesia looked to India on lockdown, but didn’t adopt its policy

Live Mint  

The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to those in India two months ago - hospital corridors jammed with COVID-19 patients and frantic families trying to find oxygen to treat sick loved-ones. Since the peak of its recent crisis, India has engineered an eight-fold reduction in recorded coronavirus infections, and Indonesian President Joko Widodo …

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Testing limited to urban clusters in Uttar Pradesh?
3 years, 7 months ago

Testing limited to urban clusters in Uttar Pradesh?

Hindustan Times  

Have states been testing enough to curb the spread of the second wave of Covid-19 in India? One reason for UP’s official numbers showing testing as adequate despite ground reports suggesting otherwise could be that the large-scale testing is limited to a few areas, cities, or districts. At 13.2%, even in the week ending May 4, the average positivity rate …

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Nine major states report positivity above 20 per cent; West Bengal among the highest
3 years, 7 months ago

Nine major states report positivity above 20 per cent; West Bengal among the highest

India Today  

West Bengal reported a positivity rate of 16 per cent on April 15. West Bengal is one of the many states where the test positivity rate has seen a massive spike in the last 20 days. Of the nine major states with a weekly positivity rate above 20 per cent, West Bengal and the national capital of Delhi recorded a …

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Covid-19 rises relentlessly on all key indices in India
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 rises relentlessly on all key indices in India

India Today  

Why does the current surge of the coronavirus pandemic in India seem to be unmanageable? Data available on the CoWin dashboard, on the other hand, show an almost 15 per cent drop in the number of vaccine doses administered last week, compared to the previous. The positivity rate for Uttar Pradesh has gone up from 3.75 per cent to 9.74 …

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Coronavirus US: Spikes in cases occur though deaths decline
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus US: Spikes in cases occur though deaths decline

Daily Mail  

Several US states are still seeing troubling spikes in new COVID-19 cases as deaths appear to be declining across the country - but health experts warn the fatality rate often lags several weeks behind and could potentially shoot back up again. At the peak of the pandemic in mid-April, the US recorded 36,000 new infections on a single day While …

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