Our 4 pm update is published. The US has now completed tests on at least 227,365 people, up 44,560 from yesterday's total.
Note that we can only track tests that a state reports (for now). And not all states report all negative tests.
For details, see: covidtracking.com
Note that we can only track tests that a state reports (for now). And not all states report all negative tests.
For details, see: covidtracking.com
New York continues to have the highest positive tests per capita, an indication of both the intensity of testing there and the severity of the outbreak. Here’s the top 10:
New York
Washington
New Jersey
Louisiana
DC
Michigan
Illinois
Vermont
Colorado
Rhode Island
New York
Washington
New Jersey
Louisiana
DC
Michigan
Illinois
Vermont
Colorado
Rhode Island
Based on the 15 states that report this metric: The number of people hospitalized has grown to 2,544, most of them in New York. It’s worth noting: Washington State does not disclose this number (yet).
Also note: experts say that broad testing will not be the optimal strategy for all stages of all local outbreak. But/and over the long term, testing remains an important strategy for understanding and resolving this crisis.
We want to preview some changes we’ll be making this week, as we enter our 3rd week. We never thought we’d still be doing this when we first launched this project. We imagined the @CDCgov would take over.
Now we have to rebuild ourselves for sustainability.
Now we have to rebuild ourselves for sustainability.
First, there’ll be some changes in how we track pending numbers, so that state totals go up and down less erratically. Second, we’ll be tracking more numbers from states, and broaden our grading criteria. Third, we’ll be making major changes to the website.
Fourth, the team is growing and a leadership structure is being built. We hope to have more room for volunteers soon. In fact, we need more. We just want to make sure that we have the right systems in place to make everyone’s effort count towards the mission of the project.
An enormous thank you to our volunteers. They run this operation, often at considerable cost to themselves and their families.
We are so grateful to you all.
We are so grateful to you all.
(One last data note: we are not reporting California’s pending number because it has been published irregularly. But it is quite large—12,700–and worth considering when looking at the data.)
