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Had under tested, the rate of testing has increased drastically in the last two weeks. It’s not where we need it to be, but the US is now testing at a rate com

Had under tested, the rate of testing has increased drastically in the last two weeks. It’s not where we need it to be, but the US is now testing at a rate comparable with any other country.

ChristianGeek 7y ago
Can you provide a source (other than the president) that backs that up?
- riffraff 7y ago
  It is a very sad state of affairs that a Presidential statements cannot considered reliable anymore.
  - sg47 7y ago
    Random lies don't Presidential statements make.
- adventured 7y ago
  The US is doing a minimum of ~100,000 tests per day currently (1.2 million total tests at a minimum thus far), although that doesn't capture every private test that is performed. That's double the per capita per day test rate that Britain is functioning at currently and it's also far off the rate that Germany is testing at (the US needs to increase its rate by 2x to 2.5x or so to match Germany) on the excellent testing side of things. Right now it's more fair to say the US would probably fall in the middle of Western Europe on the testing rate. The reason Britain has an extreme 8% mortality rate on its positive cases, is because they aren't testing properly (and haven't been). They'd already be at 100,000+ cases if they were testing just at the rate the US is. France as another example has such an extreme case mortality rate (7%) in part because they're not testing enough people. Their positive result would be far higher than ~60k right now if they were (and that mortality rate would drop considerably). One of the reasons Germany's mortality rate is so low, is they're catching a very large number of all positive cases via massive testing. If the US were testing at the rate of Germany, its case mortality rate (which is around 2.3%) would drop by more than 1/2. This site has done a very good job at bringing together all the available testing data across the states. https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
new_realist 7y ago
Testing latency is still 10 days in most areas, so the results are out of date.
- matheweis 7y ago
  This will change quickly, take a look at the Abbott RealTime SARS-COV-2 test
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apaprocki 7y ago
In NYC, no one is tested unless they require hospitalization. > If your symptoms are mild, you should stay at home and monitor your condition. Testing is only offered to patients who are severely ill and need hospitalization. https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03288 https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03288

Had under tested, the rate of testing has increased drastically in the last two weeks. It’s not where we need it to be, but the US is now testing at a rate comparable with any other country.

ChristianGeek 7y ago

Can you provide a source (other than the president) that backs that up?

riffraff 7y ago
It is a very sad state of affairs that a Presidential statements cannot considered reliable anymore.
- sg47 7y ago
  Random lies don't Presidential statements make.
adventured 7y ago
The US is doing a minimum of ~100,000 tests per day currently (1.2 million total tests at a minimum thus far), although that doesn't capture every private test that is performed. That's double the per capita per day test rate that Britain is functioning at currently and it's also far off the rate that Germany is testing at (the US needs to increase its rate by 2x to 2.5x or so to match Germany) on the excellent testing side of things. Right now it's more fair to say the US would probably fall in the middle of Western Europe on the testing rate. The reason Britain has an extreme 8% mortality rate on its positive cases, is because they aren't testing properly (and haven't been). They'd already be at 100,000+ cases if they were testing just at the rate the US is. France as another example has such an extreme case mortality rate (7%) in part because they're not testing enough people. Their positive result would be far higher than ~60k right now if they were (and that mortality rate would drop considerably). One of the reasons Germany's mortality rate is so low, is they're catching a very large number of all positive cases via massive testing. If the US were testing at the rate of Germany, its case mortality rate (which is around 2.3%) would drop by more than 1/2. This site has done a very good job at bringing together all the available testing data across the states. https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily

new_realist 7y ago

Testing latency is still 10 days in most areas, so the results are out of date.

matheweis 7y ago
This will change quickly, take a look at the Abbott RealTime SARS-COV-2 test

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apaprocki 7y ago

In NYC, no one is tested unless they require hospitalization. > If your symptoms are mild, you should stay at home and monitor your condition. Testing is only offered to patients who are severely ill and need hospitalization. https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03288 https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03288