Any news article that mentions the number of new positive cases without mentioning the number of new tests is doing it for the clicks. One is fairly useless without the other.
150 cases out of 150 tests? Yikes! 150 cases out of 150,000 tests? Yawn.
Florida is a much different story, as their cases have increased the testing has not kept up, and the positive test rate has gone from 2.3% at the end of May to 12.2%
One thing that everyone should keep in mind, even if you could attribute all of the increase in confirmed cases to testing, tests don't give anyone the coronavirus. The only thing increased testing can do is give you a more accurate picture of how bad the situation is, it can't make the situation worse.
The second metric is obviously more important, but when a pandemic as an Ro of more than 1, any increasing number of cases is a huge issue. Hence why the hospitalizations are on the way up, which is also reported in that article..
you've actually got it backwards. 150 cases out of 150 tests mean that testing isn't indicative of the infection rate, and is a yawner because the test itself is telling us almost nothing.
