smith. two others are doctors. >> all three have impeccable credentials. >>> we have to interrupt the story and take you live to gavin newsom. >> some cases in the high teens, 20, 30, 40% positivity rates. it's raised alarm, some concern, i want to jump in and give you the latest in our state. our case numbers have been trending up as well. the-day average, 5889. number of tested positive for covid-19 yesterday, the number came in over 7000. 7212, that number was familiar four to six weeks ago. in the early part of october, we haven't seen an average of 7 days above 5800 in quite sometime. let's look at the positivity rate. as you can see, here the positivity rate, the passenger of people tested, those that tested positive, that is at 3.7%. i should note on october 19th, not too long ago, less than a month ago when i made a presentation that positivity rate over 14-day period was 2.5%. 2.5%, october 19th, when we provided you this information now at 3.7%. the last three plus weeks we started to see not just the average number of people testing positive go up but also the positivity rate go up. i will remind you of wh