Quote Originally Posted by hacker View Post
It just seems the most plausible explanation given that most weeks look something like this:

Monday: 0 tests reported
Tuesday: 10000 tests reported
Wednesday-Sunday: 5000 tests reported
But why do you think they are just reporting the negatives? It seems at least as plausible that some clinics report positives but don't report negatives. Some clinics either don't report everyday, or alternatively the MSDH only incporates those labs tests into the data certain days. Unless the data also shows the positive test rate going from 100%, to 5% to 15% or some pattern like that, it seems just as plausible that the negative tests from some clinics just aren't being reported. Not that they are being reported on different days from the positive tests.