Access to County COVID-19 Test Positivity Rate
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updates its COVID-19 test positivity rate by county on a regular basis. Click HERE to access data for all counties in the United States (click on link in the COVID-19 Testing section).
Please Note:
During the week of Sept. 14, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the following updates to its county percent test positivity characterization methodology.
- In order to use a greater amount of data to calculate percent test positivity and improve the stability of values, the indicator was expanded to include 14 days of data instead of seven days.
- Further, because there are instances where counties with high test positivity rates may reflect low testing levels rather than high levels of viral transmission, additional criteria were added to re-assign counties with low testing volume to lower nursing home staff testing tiers (i.e., communities with low levels of testing and high test positivity (>10%) are reassigned to either yellow or green testing tiers).
Methodology
- GREEN = Counties with test percent positivity at <5.0% OR with <20 tests in past 14 days
- YELLOW = Counties with test percent positivity 5.0%-10.0% OR with <500 tests and <2000 tests/100k and >10% positivity over 14 days
- RED = Counties with >10.0% and not meeting the criteria for “Green” or “Yellow”
Test positivity is rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent before classifying.
Nebraska County Test Positivity Rates:
- NEW COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Jan. 13, 2021
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Jan. 6, 2021
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Dec. 30, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Dec. 23, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Dec. 9, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Dec. 2, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Nov. 25, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Nov. 18, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Nov. 11, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Nov. 4, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Oct. 28, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Oct. 21, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Oct. 14, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Oct. 7, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Sept. 30, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Sept. 23, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Two-Week Period Ending Sept. 16, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Week Ending Sept. 9, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Week Ending Sept. 2, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Week Ending Aug. 26, 2020
- COVID-19 Test Positivity Rates for Nebraska Counties for the Week Ending Aug. 19, 2020