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Since late in the summer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the main infectious infectious expert and director of national health institutes, warns the country of the importance of maintaining the rate of coronavirus infection at least before the autumn months and winter. Why? Once the temperatures fall, people tend to go inside, offering the highly infectious virus the perfect environment to propagate. Now, just less than a month at the autumn season, its predictions are realized. During an event organized by the College of American Pathologists on Tuesday, Mr. Faisci revealed that a key metric in the forecast of future infections is on the rise and earlier than later, the number of deaths will follow.Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss these Without signs that you have already had coronavirus.

"We see an increase"

Dr. FaCi explained that the positivity of coronavirus tests increases in many parts of the country - specifically of the Midwest, the Northwest Upper and the States above the Sunbelt, which is a sinister sign of what is to come.

"We see an increase in what is called the positivity of the tests - namely the percentage of tests you make in a community surveillance that turns out to be positive," he revealed. "You would like to see them less than 3%, optimally 1% or less."

"The more positive the percentage, the more question"Johns HopkinsThe university explains on their website. "As a general rule, however, a threshold for the percentage of being" too high "is 5%."

In the end, the number of positive tests is followed by other devastating surge. At present, 25 states report positivity rates up two consecutive weeks and a percentage rate of percentages greater than 5%.

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Idaho has the highest positivity rate

Idaho currently presents the country's highest positivity rate with 22.9%, while South Dakota and Wisconsin are close to nearly 20%.

"We are starting to see a number of states well above that, which is often - in fact, without invariably - very predictive of a resurgence of cases, which we know historically leads to an increase in hospitalizations and then to an increase in death, "he said.

In August, Dr. FaCi explained to Dr. Ashish Jha and the Brown School of Public Health, which Dr. Deborah Birx, also on the working group on the Coronavirus of the White House, paid special attention to the way the rate positivity could be returned.

"She's returned and started analyzing, and she discovered that if you really look like carefully, when you have a positive percentage that even clicks some percentage points, he almost never spontaneously, unless you do not Do something different from you "I do", he said, explaining that overvoltages could generally be related to changes in the two-week positivity rate before. "

"So when you see this little tick goes up, it means you were doing something not particularly good. So, what you need to do is change what you do," he added.And to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.