[elboulangero]

The article just counts the total number of cases, without mentioning the number of tests, right?

Say on day one you test 10 persons and get 1 positive. Then on day two you tests 100 persons and get 10 positive.

You can say it's 10% positive in both cases: the virus doesn't spread. Or you can say the number of positive was multiplied by 10 in only one day: wow, "exponential growth", the number of positive cases is "soaring".

So, yeah, like most of the mainstream coverage around covid, it's just BS. Put the highest numbers along with a few dramatic words in the headline, and you're done, you wrote an article. Just fill the article with whatever, who cares.