New York's positive COVID-19 test rate inches up as cases climb in other states

We keep hearing about "cases" but the death rate is flat. Does no journalist realize that "cases" simply reflect the number of people being tested?

The positivity rate has risen to 26% in South Dakota, up from 17% last week, according to an analysis using testing data from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the outbreak. According to the analysis, on Monday, Wisconsin's rate was 19%, Iowa's was 16%, Missouri's was 16%, Kansas' was 15% and Nebraska's 14%.

Other states would kill for only 1.5% - that's how good a job NY is now doing compared to other states

Are those people actually sick or is the test simply picking up dead, inert, harmless corona viruses that exist naturally in all humans anyways.

It's for this specific live Covid-19 virus - they don't have to be sick; they just have to be infected and thus could infect others and therefore need to be treated carefully. It's the canary in the coal mine - the first sign where an outbreak might develop if they don't fix it

NY is not stupid - they know what they're looking for, after suffering so bad being hit hard by Covid-19 earlier this year

Most people in NY still wear masks when they go into shops or when nearby congregations of people they don't know. They don't mind wearing masks - it's become a stylish necessary clothing in addition to shirts and shoes in order to get service

We keep hearing about "cases" but the death rate is flat. Does no journalist realize that "cases" simply reflect the number of people being tested?

That would defeat the whole purpose of this engineered hysteria....