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This weekend also saw the largest jump in tests given. By far. There were free public tests given at two places in Fairfax County this weekend. Walk-ups and drive-ins both. Cars were backed up for miles. People were arriving at 7 or 8 in the morning and waiting two or three hours for their tests. The testing sites eventually closed down and started turning people away at around noon, even though they were supposed to be open until 6pm! This happened on both Saturday and Sunday. I live very near one of the testing sites, and it was mayhem.

So yeah, I wonder if maybe that had something to do with the increase in "cases." Hmm. Yes, I wonder.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2020/05/fairfax-co-coronavirus-testing-reached-capacity-early-saturday/

https://patch.com/virginia/annandale/free-annandale-coronavirus-testing-event-closes-early

Looking at Worldometer for the US,

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Yesterday, Virginia had 37 deaths and 1483 new cases.

Looking at the wayback machine, since Friday compared to Monday:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200522222128/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Virginia did ( 289,579 - 249,940 = ) 39,639 tests, to find (37,727 - 34,950 = ) 2,777 positives over Memorial day weekend, for a positive rate of 7%. They are having to mine deeper and deeper to get their case numbers up.