Another predictable thing: that Trump would try to discourage testing because he figured out that the media tended to focus on raw case counts without considering test volume (though, the coverage of this has gotten more sophisticated recently IMO).
And to be clear: the CURRENT increase in cases is almost certainly real and NOT just the result of expanding testing. At least not in the South and the West, where cases are rising much faster than tests in a number of states.
I wish people had been more careful before b/c there were a lot of false alarms before driven by increases in testing or other artifacts in the data.
We have a real alarm now, however. These numbers adjust for testing and show increases in many states:
rt.live
We have a real alarm now, however. These numbers adjust for testing and show increases in many states:
rt.live
