Something's fishy about that dataset. How can there be a 25% rise in positive tests in that many states, but only a 4% rise nationwide? It looks to me like someone misplaced a decimal point, there.
Ah. You're right. That means each of those could've increased a very small number, even though 25% sounds like a dramatic increase. Which is probably why they choose to display the data that way.
Source for report: https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp
Something's fishy about that dataset. How can there be a 25% rise in positive tests in that many states, but only a 4% rise nationwide? It looks to me like someone misplaced a decimal point, there.
11.8% positivity rate increasing to 16.4% is a 38% increase in positive tests (4.5/11.8).
Ah. You're right. That means each of those could've increased a very small number, even though 25% sounds like a dramatic increase. Which is probably why they choose to display the data that way.
I think the other graph is more telling, the proportion of tests. 26.8% of the total tests, only 16.7% of the total positives.
Thank you for the source! I wonder how long they will leave it up...