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by SpicyLemonZest 2019 days ago
You'd be incorrect in that inference. According to state data, the positivity rate in San Mateo County is 2.6% currently.
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Ah, thanks for checking. There are a few other hypotheses then:

Testing volumes are low, meaning we fail to capture a sizeable chunk of cases.

The testing strategy is bad. We’re testing people that are less likely to be positive.

And possibly, the model is just wrong.