Bloviator, meet Strawman
Nobody’s claming that an aggregated test count is driving any actions. It’s theatre. This writer sets that up as his thesis than smashes it. Strawman fallacy.
Real understanding of testing program management requires discussion of different venues, purposes, goals, all kinds of testing. Vulnerables surveillance, random antibody sampling. Point-of-care testing of symptomatic people, etc., etc.
Nobody reports on this. Because complicated. So they report an aggregated count. So what.
The two mouth breathers who wrote this piece obviously know nothing.
But they think that somehow, this can be a critique of the Administration, because, I guess, they found a Harvard professor who doesn’t like the way the CDC is reporting their data. Or something.
Driving any actions?
Anybody who uses the CDC data to see what the number of new cases are is being misled if they aggregate the count and if they don't say so.
I assume the Worldometer doesn't use such aggregated data. I've been looking there.