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In response to "Notre Dame just reported 73 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the school's total up to 222. Yesterday positivity rate was 20.5%. -- (link)" by decline

Unless they're testing the entire student body, that positivity rate is mostly useless. They're testing likely infected people based on contact

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Aug 19 '20, 10:13

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But that the same for cities, counties, and states. No one is testing everyone. -- nm - Inigo Aug 19, 10:17 2
- Yes. It is just especially useless here because they're testing a likely infected population vs. normal testing which at least as some semblance - oblique Aug 19, 10:20 1
  - All depends on if the faculty of the college are being tested regularly. -- nm - Inigo Aug 19, 10:46
It means they need to be doing a lot more testing, is what it means. -- nm - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 19, 10:15 1
- I'd love to see a school do mandatory quarantine rules for on campus students. Lockdown, no gatherings, discipline for violating. - oblique Aug 19, 10:19

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