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Charlottesville area becomes an island of low COVID cases while the rest of Virginia surges Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 9:36 PM
This map shows the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests in Virginia s health districts. The pink area in the middle is the Thomas Jefferson Health District. Positivity rate is one measure that shows how well a community has contained the spread of coronavirus. The TJHD conducts a comparably high number of tests compared to other health districts because of the 1,000 a week given to students by the University of Virginia.
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While coronavirus cases in the past weeks have spiked across Virginia and elsewhere in the country, the trend in the Charlottesville-area has been quietly moving in the opposite direction.