positivity. december 10th, 24.2%. we were testing everybody. i was out at testing sites in every corner of this state and people did an extraordinary job to make the test available so people could know whether or not they should stay home or carry on with their lives. that was really important. enormous number of tests being done, higher than any state in the nation and we are showing a 23% infection rate, those who be tested testing positive. look at that drop from 23% to february 8th 3.67% and numbers continue continue to decline. we have been taking a listen to new york governor kathy hochul there and the governor walking us through what new york
tests were negative a few days later they have come down, tested positive in the case several people this weekend severe like flu symptoms. can omicron invade the rapid test can there be false positives or false negatives? the false negative is really what we see in the presymptomatic phase. that is before you have symptoms the rate of a false negative can be as low as 50%. so if you are very concerned you might been exposed to moving to test twice if using the rapid antigen test you buy at the pharmacy. they have been to gatherings or people are vaccinated they beat triple fax with the booster and they test negative and think they are okay. but you are saying that may not necessarily be so? that is right we have to move to a selective testing strategy in the u.s. we cannot universally be testing everybody frequently who were not going to make any changes to their behavior who are around me and say people who are not going to come down
kids on the testing front. should this be mandatory, given schools are a mix of unvaccinated and vaccinated? you know, our schools are back and they re back much of the year in colorado. we had a back to school task force early on. we think it is safer from a broad health perspective for kids to be in school for their own well-being and preparedness. a couple of poll strategies. if there s an outbreak in school, the school should be able to test back in, rather than have to go online, out of session a week or two, if they re testing everybody, come back in. it is relatively safe. on an ongoing basis, we want to do screenings. we created an incentive program where kids and families that participate get 10, 15 bucks a week to agree to go through regular testing to catch anything earlier than we otherwise might. it is some of both.
story of browns is different. bill: you would concede a year ago it wasn t this way. why they allow the border crisis to even happen? you know, i think it starts just with the flow. the amount of people that are coming in. if we can stem the flow a little bit i think we will be able to really kind of do the policies that are necessary. good thing about brownsville and federal government right now is they realize that something needs to change. we re testing everybody down here and doing the best we can for our citizens and to make sure brownsville is safe. dana: speaking of that, some of these images that we re seeing here were released by border patrol agents. you would probably have a lot of border patrol agents that live in your city. what do you hear from them? what would they like you to ask secretary mayorkas to do or for resources? what would that ask be?
been vaccinated unless you have symptoms you don t have to be tested. so as a result overall testing has come down close to 80%. since end of last year. we don t know what breakthrough infections are. here in the olympic village because of the olympics they are testing everybody. i got tested in 96 hours, 72 hours, tested again in when i landed, just got tested again. i am not surprised we are seeing the cases. the question is are those people going to develop symptoms. the focus has been on eliminating false/negatives. a doctor in charge of putting these protocols together, here is how he described it. the absolute priority is reducing false/negatives. that puts people at risk because people in the village who might be infected who don t know it. but also we don t want false/positives because that means an athlete training for seven or eight risks being excluded.