1 In 4 Houston Residents Testing Positive For Covid 19 Amid Texas Outbreak
According to data released by the health department, Houston’s test-positivity ratio reached nearly 25 percent on Thursday, July 2, up from 15 percent reported one month earlier. Test positivity rates measure the number of diagnostic COVID-19 tests confirming presence of infection against the total number of tests administered during a designated period of time. The ratio offers a clearer picture of virus transmission in a given area than standalone case counts do, since health officials across the country have ramped up distribution of diagnostic tests since regions began to reopen....