Gov. Baker Hints At Changes To Coronavirus Dashboard

BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker said the state’s daily coronavirus dashboard may no longer be the best way to convey the results of so many coronavirus tests. “At this point, it’s confusing to me,” he said.

“I think you can anticipate that some time in the next couple of weeks we are going to update the way we collect and present a lot of this information,” Baker told reporters at a press conference Tuesday.

According to the governor, when the state began publishing the daily testing numbers almost every test was a new one. Months into the pandemic, “we now have a situation where there are a number of people who’ve been tested multiple times.” This makes the number of total tests administered far higher than the number of individuals tested.

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