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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (165280)	5/25/2020 8:40:48 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363029

And in keeping with the portrayal by Trump and others in his administration that the pandemic is under control, the document says that epidemiologists and public health organizations have said that if 10 percent of tests are positive for the virus over the course of a week, that is “enough to assure broad coverage of the population.” It says that 41 states already have achieved that goal. That paragraph is from an article entitled "Administration leaves testing responsibility to states in report to Congress." washingtonpost.com Can someone please explain to me the point of a testing goal of 10 percent positive?