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We're barely testing anyone. I know of only two people tested among my NYC friends. One who is still in the hospital after surgery to improve his breathing. One
by JohnTHaller 7y ago
We're barely testing anyone. I know of only two people tested among my NYC friends. One who is still in the hospital after surgery to improve his breathing. One who is a healthcare worker exposed to a known carrier. Two other friends exposed to a known carrier who got sick couldn't get tested because there weren't enough tests. Nor could the 5 others I know who had COVID-19-like symptoms. Nor could I.
- Exmoor 7y agoWhile I don't think anyone would argue that we are testing anything approaching "enough" people in the US, I would certainly not say we're testing "almost nobody". Looking at Politico's testing tracker ( https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testing-by-state-chart-of-new-cases/ https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi... ), most states outside of the hotspots in the Northeastern US have administered about 10x as many tests as they have positive cases. New York and the surrounding areas are obviously a different matter, but at this stage I suspect that even if they did have enough physical tests and capacity to process them they would not have anywhere near enough medical staff to physically administer them. There's also the tradeoff that asking hundreds of thousands of people to leave their dwellings to seek testing would do more harm than good in areas where that necessarily involves walking, public transportation, etc.