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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

State public health officials move away from ‘outdated’ COVID testing positivity rate in favor of hospital metrics

One of Illinois’ most familiar COVID-19 barometers is going away. 

The state Department of Public Health announced Tuesday it will no longer report seven-day average case positivity rates — figures that, since the early days of the pandemic, had offered a quick glance at how rampantly the virus was spreading at any given time in different regions or across Illinois as a whole. 

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