U.S. Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short. How's Your State Doing?
New estimates say the U.S. needs to triple its testing. But how much testing does each state need? Here's how states compare to each other, and to targets experts say they should hit.
To safely phase out social distancing measures, the U.S. needs more diagnostic testing for the coronavirus, experts say. But how much more?
The Trump administration said on April 27 the U.S. will soon have enough capacity to conduct double the current amount of testing for active infections. The country has done nearly 248,000 tests daily on average in the last seven days, according to the nonprofit Covid Tracking Project. Doubling that would mean doing around 496,000 a day.
Will that be enough? What benchmark should states try to hit?
One prominent research group, Harvard's Global Health Institute, proposes that the U.S. should be doing more than 900,000 tests per
