I went with CNN since it's a major news site, but this LessWrong post has useful charts and graphs with a lot more detail. Unfortunately without any firm conclusion about why: In particular,...
I went with CNN since it's a major news site, but this LessWrong post has useful charts and graphs with a lot more detail. Unfortunately without any firm conclusion about why:
What we found was that there were seemingly independent, plausibly innocent explanations for a substantial portion of the testing gap. Any one of them would have been easy to accept. Even any two of them. But all of them happening at once, in ways that couldn’t be attributed to the storm, was harder to accept as random chance.
We didn’t get to the bottom of it all and figure out what was going on. We didn’t have the resources to follow up on a detail level and go county by county or hospital by hospital, which would have been the way forward. If anyone knows, they aren’t talking. All I know how to do in that situation is to move forward, while keeping all eyes open for the missing pieces. As usual, each day and each week continue to tell the story. What was unclear will become clear over time.
In particular, testing in Texas, Arizona, and Florida has dropped a lot.
There are several groups that track national testing numbers. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), though recently shut out from receiving hospital data in a mid-July White House decision, still updates national testing information in a large, though incomplete, sample.
This data demonstrates a distinct fall-off from about 2.5 million tests a week for most of July to less than 2 million in the most recent week, ending August 1.
I went with CNN since it's a major news site, but this LessWrong post has useful charts and graphs with a lot more detail. Unfortunately without any firm conclusion about why:
In particular, testing in Texas, Arizona, and Florida has dropped a lot.
From the article: