The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cease tracking community levels of Covid and the percentage of tests that come back positive, a metric used to calculate transmission rates, the agency announced on Friday.The decision is linked to the end of the public health emergency on May 11.The emergency designation, first declared in January 2020, had allowed the C.D.C. to demand certain kinds of data on Covid's spread from state officials.
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