See which 6 counties saw a rise in COVID-19 – FOX 31 Denver

DENVER (KDVR) Colorado is moving into the endemic phase of COVID-19, the governor announced last week.

The state continues to see a decline in COVID-19rates. Only six counties saw an increase in positivity in the last week.

As of Monday, the states seven-day positivity rate was 4.01%, which is down from 5.81% seven days ago. Positivity rate measures the amount of COVID positive tests to the total amount of tests taken.

Over the last week, 55 counties saw a decrease in COVID-19 positivity, six counties saw a rise, and three counties administered fewer than 10 tests.

According to theColorado Department of Public Health and Environment, incidence rates also dropped over the last week.

Heres a look atpositivity rates for every county over the last seven days:

According toJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the percent positive is exactly what it sounds like: the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are actually positive, or: (positive tests)/(total tests) x 100%. The percent positive (sometimes called the percent positive rate or positivity rate) helps public health officials answer questions suchas:

The percent positive will be high if the number ofpositive testsis too high, or if the number oftotal testsis too low. A higher percent positive suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with coronavirus in the community who havent been tested yet, Johns Hopkins shared.

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