The CDC has refused to publish the number of Americans who have actually been tested, reporting only the number of positive results. On Monday, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the FDA, estimated that “by the end of this week, close to a million tests will be able to be performed” in the United States. On Wednesday, Pence promised that “roughly 1.5 million tests” would be available this week.
But the number of tests performed across the country has fallen far short of those projections. Through interviews with dozens of public-health officials and a survey of local data from across the country, The Atlantic could only verify that 1,895 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the United States, about 10 percent of whom have tested positive. To arrive at this estimate, they contacted the public-health departments of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, but not all states reported the total number tested.
With other illnesses, the CDC has always kept track of national totals, but they aren’t doing this for COVID-19.
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