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> less than 40% of the people tested give a positive.

FWIW, Queens and Brooklyn (Kings county) are at 50.7% and 48.3% positive tests respectively.

https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...

I meant people being tested nowadays, not cumulative numbers.

Today: Kings 548/1835 = 29.9% and Queens 786/2428 = 32.4%

If we're going to talk about the total number of people who have been infected, wouldn't it make more sense to use the overall test rate?

My point was that the number of people currenlty infected is surely lower than 30%, given that only 2% of the population is already confirmed and testing a suspected case today will return a negative 70% of the time.

But as another commenter said, it's not impossible that there are many other people who had infection which is not currently active.

Using the overall test rate doesn't really help, I think.

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