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Earlier this week, the Kern County Board of Supervisors voted to challenge a part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to reopen counties during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing a data algorithm unfairly penalizes the county. According to the raw numbers, Kern County is currently meeting the data targets that would allow it to advance to the next tier of Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy . The guidelines, which color code each county according to its progress toward containing the virus, aimed to streamline the reopening process by relying on only two data measures: Each county’s case rate, or the number of positive cases per 100,000 residents; and its positivity rate, the proportion of tests that come back positive. There’s a snag, however: A week after announcing the new blueprint, Newsom announced that the state would actually adjust those raw numbers using an algorithm based on testing rates. Each county’s case rate gets bumped up or down depending on how their testing rates compare
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