How contagious is COVID-19?
Date: April 16, 2019
What are the numbers - today - for Minnesota?
Source: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html
One (1) out of every (135) Minnesotans (0.7%) have been test.
41,675 people have been tested.
1,433 (4.6%) people have tested positive.
Since Minnesota began lockdown, the percentage of positive tests has GONE UP (64%) - from 2.8% to 4.6%.
0.034% of all Minnesotans have tested positive.
One (1) out every (2,944) Minnesotans have test positive.
Minnesota population: 5629416
https://mn.gov/admin/demography/data-by-topic/population-data/our-estimates/
Who gets tested for COVID-19?
Source: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/basics.html
"Testing for COVID-19
" * People who do not have symptoms should not be tested for COVID-19. Due to national shortages of lab testing supplies, we do not have an unlimited capacity for testing.
" * We are currently prioritizing most testing for people who are hospitalized, health care workers, and people living or working in congregate living settings, such as nursing homes and others."
NOTE(1): It is likely that some people are tested more than once, and some people tested are not Minnesota residents.
NOTE(2): Several estimates posit that +40% of postive test results are "false positive" - which means that HALF of those positive tested people may, indeed, not have COVID-19.
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