Reopening Montgomery County

I just went through this press release about Montgomery Country’s Phase I reopening.

Here’s one paragraph:

This initial phase of reopening was based on metrics the County established with progress overall in decreasing daily numbers of new cases, increasing testing capacity, implementing a large-scale contact tracing effort with the State, decreasing hospitalizations and use of the emergency room by patients with COVID-19 related symptoms, and positive trends in the death rate and test positivity.

Here’s another paragraph:

The County’s data dashboard has shown the number of cases is decreasing at the same time that testing has increased. According to the Maryland Department of Health, the positivity rate has decreased by more than 50 percent from 32.64 percent on April 7 to 15.84 percent on May 27.