Mayor looking at closing beaches.

[TomK]

It can be useful as a day-to-day gauge of trends.  Knowing a higher/lower percentage of people are testing positive might help with the "considering".  I'm not sure what closing the beaches would accomplish.  The new cluster report sites no clusters from social gatherings, which are limited in size anyway.

Exactly - the test results should be treated as relative. They won't give you accurate numbers of infections but they will give you a good indication of what the trend is. I wouldn't call them BS.