COVID-19 Testing and Case Total Explanations

Confirmed cases are from positive tests. Negative tests are NOT counted into case totals. 1 confirmed case = 1 person who has tested positive.

More testing is the reason for increasing cases, right? Not exactly. As Governor DeWine and health experts have explained, the positivity rate has been slightly increasing, despite so much more testing. If the spread of COVID-19 remained at a low level, more testing should show a decreasing positivity rate. Furthermore, people without symptoms are being tested now, whereas only symptomatic people were able to be tested earlier on. The fact that Ohio's positivity rate is not decreasing, even as more testing is done, means that we are probably experiencing broader community spread.