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Testing has been ramping up https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
by s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
Testing has been ramping up https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
- cheriot 7y agoThat's where I've been getting data. We have a long way to go. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y9_ZrMBhhVLg2xQHtBCcb5ho0p-1OM6fDqRRhriYGbk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y9_ZrMBhhVLg2xQHtBCc...
- ejstronge 7y agoWhy do you state that our testing capacity has been maxed out? My understanding is that factors like the availability of swabs and the availability of medical personnel to administer tests are a bigger bottleneck than qPCR machines.
- cheriot 7y agoI don't have any insight into the why. Only that the growth rate in tests per day has slowed to an almost stagnant level.
- ejstronge 7y agoAt least anecdotally, it doesn’t seem that we’re hitting our full testing potential. I think adding in a new technique would only exacerbate the mismatch between test supply and test utilization. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3
- phantom0308 7y agoIt's plateaued and has been hovering around 100k per day for 2 weeks (outside California clearing its backlog on 4/4). The White House promised 27M by 3/31 and we were at 1M. It doesn't look like it's ramping up.
- cyrux004 7y agoI WA we were doing around 7k-8k tests/day 2 weeks back, now its between 4-5k