Thread by @COVID19Tracking

Our 4 pm update is published. The US has now completed tests on at least 279,485 people, up 54,134 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

This is the biggest jump for new completed tests that we’ve seen yet. Here’s a chart of the daily numbers in our dataset.

New York’s new hospitalization update did not make it into our initial daily update. It is there now. The state now has 2635 hospitalized people, up from 1974.

We regret the error.

By our count, 15 states are providing hospitalization data, a key metric for understanding the severity of the outbreak. We hope to provide more complete data soon.

3. One thing we’re tracking closely: California’s testing regime ramped up decently well, but the growth has really slowed down over the last few days. They’re also reporting a large (12k+) number of pending tests. We’re not sure what’s going on there.

Compare the number of completed tests reported by New Mexico, a state with a population 19 times smaller than California’s.

These numbers should not even be close, and yet they are.

(Note that some of the variability comes because of our 4pm ET commit time. Sometimes a state is early or late, so their numbers get filed into a different daily bucket.)

Another CA note. The state had been reporting irregularly, so we were relying on high-quality media outlets like @latimes, who have an excellent tracker.

latimes.com/projects/calif…

Now that the state is reporting more regularly, we will be relying again on the state data.