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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
the number of cases of COVID-19 being reported in the United States is rising due to increased laboratory testing and reporting across the country.
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Finding more cases because testing more is only part of the story.
Increasingly higher percentages of positive tests indicate undetected community spread and not testing enough for track and trace to work. For example:
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One in four COVID-19 tests in Arizona is coming back positive, the highest percentage in the country, according to Johns Hopkins University, and an indicator that there isn't enough testing to keep up with the new coronavirus' spread in the state.
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WHO says you need a positive test rate of around 5%.
In terms of tests/million of population, the US is ranked 24th in the world.