Massachusetts New Covid Tests per Week

I've heard some scuttlebutt about Mass reducing Covid testing, so I did a graph to illustrate the levels of testing over the past couple months. Back in the middle of April, we did 613,945 tests, and discovered 13,648 cases, for a Positive Test Rate of 2.2%. This past week we did 200,085 tests, and discovered 454 cases, for a Positive Test Rate of 0.2%. So we're testing less, but the percentage of people who have the virus is shrinking down to almost nothing. It's literally a tenth of what it was two months ago.



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