Examples of positivity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Unlike transmission levels, which factor in coronavirus cases and test positivity rates, COVID-19 community levels factor in both cases and hospitalization rates. — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022 Test positivity rates remain high, averaging 13.7% over the past four days, indicating that more testing would have caught more cases. — oregonlive, 31 May 2022 There are more and more people with such questions as case numbers and test positivity rates climb again. — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 May 2022 State health departments in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York say percent positivity rates are no longer a reliable metric. — Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Apr. 2022 The Michigan Health Department has reported an uptick in COVID-19 test positivity rates in recent weeks, with positive tests accounting for 4.7% of all clinical tests performed across the state as of its last update on April 6. — Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2022 Community-level risk goes up when local case counts, hospitalizations, and test positivity rates rise. — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2022 In Manhattan’s West Village, which had among the highest test positivity rates in the city last week, Lisa Landphair, 62, a psychotherapist, was sitting on her stoop Friday afternoon, reading a newspaper. — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022 When large numbers of people become infected with COVID-19 — as occurred this past winter, with record-high test positivity rates — the virus gains more opportunities to attack vulnerable or under-vaccinated people. — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2022 See More

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