The Elkhart (Ind.) County Health Officer, Dr. Lydia Mertz, announced Friday that the county’s COVID-19 positive test rate has gone down.
There is still a delay in getting test results back, and that is skewing the numbers, Mertz said, so the real positivity rate could change.
But by July 2, currently available data show the county’s positive test rate had dropped from 13.4 percent between June 21 and 27 to 9.6 percent from June 28 through July 2. The goal, according to Mertz, is to get below 5 percent.
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“I was pleased to see that change since the public health mask order was issued,” Mertz said. “I hope to continue to see good results as the public realizes the need for masks to slow the spread of this virus, and can see in the data how effective this can be.”