positivity

The number of official cases started creeping up again at the same time that the positivity rate was trending down. Was it due to at-home tests skewing trends or something else?

The mayor announced Monday that the city would abandon announcements of the transmission metric, even though the CDC wants leaders to base mask guidance off it.

The contrast between the city’s declining cases and its flat test positivity speaks to the importance of judging an outbreak by more than one disease metric.

Experts say that antigen tests, which are less reliable than lab tests, should not be counted in the state's positivity rate.

As with many matters involving Albany and the city, it involves a difference of opinion.

The latest data shows that the city remains precariously close to a shutdown of city schools.

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