TOTAL TESTS-—
Yesterday, the USA reached another milestone by having conducted over 5 million tests (5,015,602).
I have a couple of comments:
1. Does anyone have the number of total tests that were reported each day since April 1st? The reason I ask is that we are continuing to see a large number of new cases. I suspect the reason for the new cases is the increase in daily testing since April 1st. But I do not have the numbers to confirm.
2. Gov Ron DeSantis in his daily press briefing brought up the subject of testing and retesting. Here is how it works. If a person tests positive and is sent home, they must be retested in 14 days to see if they are still positive. And if they test positive again, they must come back in 7 days to be tested a 3rd time. So Gov DeSantis was warning people that just because 300,000 tests have been given in Florida, it does not mean that 300,000 people have been tested in Florida..
What Gov DeSantis wants the Florida State Health Dept to do is to separate the ‘first time’ test results from the ‘2nd or 3rd’ retest results.
By making that change, the State of Florida officials and its residents can have a better understanding of the percent of people tested the ‘first time’ who were positive or negative.
As an example, it is one thing to say that 500,000 test results came in today.
Versus saying that 500,000 test results came in today and 100,000 were from people who were tested for the first time and 400,000 were from people who had been tested multiple times.
The recovered number will never reflect a true number until this is pretty much over.
We’ll have to subtract the deaths from total cases and assume the rest recovered.
Our state has come right out and said they don’t track recovered cases. I wonder how well other states are tracking the ones set home with mild cases.
bttt