Toronto Public Health (TPH) has begun to share more coronavirus data in regards to specific neighbourhoods, including the per cent positivity rate, but it’s warning the data in isolation, won’t tell the full story of what is going on.Following a leak of incomplete data showing the per cent positivity rate of testing in a Toronto neighbourhood, TPH officials said they would begin sharing the data when they could.
Per cent positivity measures the proportion of people testing positive out of the total number who were tested. It alone, officials noted, won’t give an accurate portrayal of what is happening in an area, which is why the data is being provided with details of testing numbers as well.