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Georgia ran 50 tests yesterday. And that's after only 3 positive results so far. All states not equally dysfunctional.

by ethbro 7y ago

davidw 7y ago
Let's do some numbers: Georgia, with 50 tests/day and 10,000,000 people is at 0.005 per 1K people. Oregon, with 40 tests/day and 4,200,000 people, is at 0.0095 per 1K people. Italy, with about 2500 tests/day and about 60,000,000 people, is doing around 0.04 per thousand people. It's about an order of magnitude more. The point isn't a pissing match between states, it's that the entire US has not responded well so far. Hopefully things ramp up, so that we stop seeing these situations where people get exposed and have no idea what's going on. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-... I do not know why this is, just that it's not going well so far.
- davidw 7y ago
  Oh, and Italy went back to a higher number. Today they ran almost 4,000 tests. https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/ https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/
- ethbro 7y ago
  More testing != useful testing. The fact that Georgia and Oregon are testing at virtually equivalent rates is what's wrong. I feel like ~50/day is an appropriate number for GA. I feel like ~50/day is not an appropriate number for Oregon (sandwiched in-between Washington and California). The federal goverent should be doing a stronger job of quarterbacking this to allocate scarce resources. If Oregon needs surge capacity of testing labs across the Midwest, then by god make that happen. Some amount of testing likely needs to happen in every state in order to prevent panic, but the most resources should flow towards the places with the most known infections.
  - davidw 7y ago
    This is a decent article explaining how things have gone wrong in various ways: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-went-wrong-with-the-coronavirus-tests/2020/03/07/915f5dea-5d82-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-went-wrong-with-t...

Georgia ran 50 tests yesterday. And that's after only 3 positive results so far. All states not equally dysfunctional.

by ethbro 7y ago

Georgia ran 50 tests yesterday. And that's after only 3 positive results so far. All states not equally dysfunctional.

Let's do some numbers: Georgia, with 50 tests/day and 10,000,000 people is at 0.005 per 1K people. Oregon, with 40 tests/day and 4,200,000 people, is at 0.0095 per 1K people. Italy, with about 2500 tests/day and about 60,000,000 people, is doing around 0.04 per thousand people. It's about an order of magnitude more. The point isn't a pissing match between states, it's that the entire US has not responded well so far. Hopefully things ramp up, so that we stop seeing these situations where people get exposed and have no idea what's going on. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-... I do not know why this is, just that it's not going well so far.

davidw 7y ago
Oh, and Italy went back to a higher number. Today they ran almost 4,000 tests. https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/ https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/
ethbro 7y ago
More testing != useful testing. The fact that Georgia and Oregon are testing at virtually equivalent rates is what's wrong. I feel like ~50/day is an appropriate number for GA. I feel like ~50/day is not an appropriate number for Oregon (sandwiched in-between Washington and California). The federal goverent should be doing a stronger job of quarterbacking this to allocate scarce resources. If Oregon needs surge capacity of testing labs across the Midwest, then by god make that happen. Some amount of testing likely needs to happen in every state in order to prevent panic, but the most resources should flow towards the places with the most known infections.
- davidw 7y ago
  This is a decent article explaining how things have gone wrong in various ways: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-went-wrong-with-the-coronavirus-tests/2020/03/07/915f5dea-5d82-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-went-wrong-with-t...