Pretty clear we've hit a testing bottleneck now. A lot of tests are stuck for processing at private labs. Other states may be limiting tests to very sick/hospitalized people.
This is the flip-side of what I was talking about a week or two ago when the number of tests was increasing very rapidly. Now that we have a more constant baseline, the nominal rate of increase in detected US cases is not nearly as high.
But we'd much rather have the number of tests still increasing! (Even though it would lead to the number of detected cases increasing.) We're gonna need a **lot** more tests, and tests with a shorter turnaround time, to detect new hotspots, and then to get back on our feet.
Frankly, whenever the media reports on the number of new detected cases *without* context on how many tests were conducted, it creates disincentives for governments to do more testing since doing fewer tests may make things look superficially better (see also: China).
