Case positivity is an invalid number, look at hospitalization rates, it's
the only number that isnt affected by external skews

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:37 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would not assume it's linear. There are too many overlapping and/or
> conflicting variables to deal with. Plus you have the added complication of
> a 2-3 week delay between first infection and when (if) symptoms appear.
>
> I would be paying attention to your local case positivity rate. Our county
> (San Mateo) just went from the red tier to the orange tier based partly on
> the case posivity rate getting below 1% and that there have been zero
> deaths for several weeks.
>
> In another 2 weeks, if the case rate stays low (or lower), we will move up
> to the yellow tier.
>
>
> bp
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>
> On 3/20/2021 9:16 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>
> 30 days ago, Utah’s average daily new case rate was 831, yesterday 471,
> difference 360.
> ASSUMING it is linear, in 30 days we will be at 111.  And zero 12 days
> later...
>
> Man, this is starting to look like a capacitor discharge curve...  Someone
> needs to just short it out.
>
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