I have trouble understanding why a low positivity rate is important. In our county, you have to pay for your own covid test (maybe insurance helps some people), yet we have one of the highest rates of both poverty and uninsured, so no one here wants to spend the money unless they feel they have to. Yet, DS, who lives in New York, just went and got tested for free-no symptoms. In our county you have to have symptoms, or they won't even let you spend the money for a test. Also, we have a very high rate of illegals/undocumented (choose what word you prefer), and since once you get tested, if you're positive, the government "knows and starts checking"-contract tracing, # of cases, etc., some people are hesitant to get tested and "get in the system". So our county seems doomed to a high positivity rate, even if all else is relatively great. Maybe your states positivity rate is based on things it can't change.