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I’m grateful to see the amount of testing increasing. For so long, we’d say, “the virus isn’t here,” but it was because we hadn’t tested and didn’t really know. It was more a hope than a fact. The numbers will be going up now that the virus is spreading and the tests are happening. For now, act like you have it and don’t want to spread it. Flatten the curve.