ORLANDO, Fla. – Maintaining a low positivity rate is considered a crucial benchmark when it comes to controlling the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in a particular area.The positivity rate is determined by calculating the percent of tests that came back positive out of all the tests performed in that time period.
For example, if 1,000 tests were performed and of those, 10 were positive then the positivity rate for that day would be 1%.[TRENDING: What La Nina could mean for rest of hurricane season | Bars allowed to open in Florida | Gator ambushes, attacks Florida woman]For Florida, the positivity rate on Thursday was 5.51% while the cumulative positivity rate sits at 13.48%, according to the Florida Department of Health.Because most.