COVID-19 Positivity Rate Decreases to 4.9%

The U.S. CDC reported on October 9, 2020, the percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus decreased from 5.2% during week #39 to just 4.9% during week #40.

In total, the CDC's COVID-19 Data Tracker indicates there have been over 123 million tests completed during 2020.

The coronavirus tests most people discuss are RT-PCR, the nasal-swab test that detects viral RNA, and various antibody tests, that detect if you have an immune response due to past exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.