Nail salons, tattoo shops and massage parlors in California will be permitted to start to reopen in a week as the state continues to ease stay-at-home restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, state officials announced Friday.
But experts say that overall case counts are not necessarily a measure of how the state is faring in its fight against the coronavirus. Increased testing can drive up the number of cases, as more infections are identified among those who are not seriously ill.
Instead, officials are closely monitoring two metrics: the positivity rate, which is the proportion of people who have tested positive out of all those who have been tested, and the daily number of hospitalizations. A rise in the former could indicate an uptick in community transmission that’s taking place separately from increased testing.
“Certainly as we test more, we see more cases,” Ghaly said. “That does not necessarily mean that they turn into more hospitalizations.”
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