Virginia still is seeing a downward trend in the percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positive after changing the way it calculates its numbers, but the revision shows the commonwealth had been inflating its testing capabilities.

The Virginia Department of Health had been including antibody blood tests in its data, which show whether someone had been infected in the past, but not usually whether someone is infected at the time of taking the test.

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