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Until late Feb, it was mainly CDC, but in March many more states came into the picture: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.h

Until late Feb, it was mainly CDC, but in March many more states came into the picture: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/test... Depending on one's view of 'widespread' testing, we have currently about 20K tested, and around 2.4K positively diagnosed.

golem14 7y ago
I think it's about 19K "SPECIMEN" tested, not people. Maybe 8K people tested as of today, but only <1K people tested until about a week ago. So, yes, I think claiming the US had widespread testing is stretching the truth beyond BS level.
- sgt101 7y ago
  But in China for the equivalent stage of the outbreak there was zero testing. Because there were no tests. The data cannot be compared.