Dr. Faisci has just said it's a "bad sign" for Covid

The main infectious infectious expert in the nation says that this metric is climbing, a clear sign of problems.

In recent weeks, Americans startedWatch Covid Numbers Swing In the direction, no one wanted them to go. With overvoltages at Midwestern and some Western states, it is clear that coronavirus is not yet done with the United States. But there is a particular metric that has the main infectious infectious expert of the nation,Anthony Fauci, MD, concerned. "There are regions of the countries that are going very well," said FauciCableSeptember 30th. "But we see, in some parts of the country,UpsTICKS in the positivity of tests, which is usually a bad predicted sign. "After an increase in the rate of testing of the tests, Fauci explained:" You will then begin to see more cases, more hospitalizations, then the late effects perhaps even more dead. "Read more about that, and if you want better news of Fauci,He just said the words you were waiting for to hear.

The test positivity rate is the percentage ofCOVID tests that come back positive on all tests performed in a state. October 1st 1 episode of the Podcast News ABCStart here, Fauci explained that "Everyone wants to be about 1% or less" in terms ofPOSITIVITY TEST. He continued, "2 percent, ok; 3% ... When you get up to 5 [Percent], 10 [Percent], you really have a problem."

The World Health Organization (WHO) advises the countries before reopening,Positive test rates should be 5% or lower for at least two weeks. Currently, 28 states of the United States, more Puerto Rico, are above this threshold, according toCOVID data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

In his conversation withCable, Fauci added: "When you look at the hot spots of the transmission, when you sawPeople closed in bars without masksIt is at this moment that you start seeing the speaker of the test positivity, which leads to an increase in cases, then an increase in hospitalizations. "

A high test positivity rate in a given area could mean that the relationship between positive tests is too high (indicating that there is a spread of the significant community) or that the number of tests administered is too low, according to JHU .

At the beginning of August, when Covid finally started loosening his taking on the states of belt,Fauci declared an increase in the positivity of the tests Became becoming a red flag in the Midwest states. "Before the climb, you could detect an earlyIncreased positive percentage For any given state, "said FauciHoward Bauchner, MD, Chief Editor of theAMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (Jama) "It's a good predictor of a thrust."

Now, two months later, it appears that the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was right. Four of the fiveThe largest epidemics of Covid in the United States. are currently in Midwest, according to the data of the Harvard Global Health Institute. Read more about where Covid is upset and for another state on the fauci radar, checkDr. Fauci says that this state is "demanding trouble."