America's Covid-19 testing has stalled, and that’s a big problem

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They are only talking about Quest's overcommitting and unable to process their Californian backlog. All the other sites are doing fine, New York esp.

Stalled? It never got going enough to call it stalled!

Testing 107,000 people per day isn't nothing.

It's not enough to do contact tracing for sure, and it's not enough to detect even close to every case

But it is no mean feat either.

No other country tests as many -- though South Korea (at it's peak, though not anymore) and Germany test a larger fraction of the population.

Very few countries have populations like the United States as well. We ramped up testing when contract tracing became irrelevant and testing doesn't mean much. People still don't stay home and take this seriously and the worse is still ahead of us.

Perhaps with more testing more people will know to stay home.

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