![]() That is actually an improvement over the state of affairs this weekend, when California reported that more than 64,000 people had pending results. Tens of thousands of Californians have been swabbed for the virus, but their samples have not yet been examined in a lab. Yet California also reports that more than 57,400 people have pending test results. Over the past week, the most populous state in the union-where the country’s first case of community transmission was identified, in late February-has managed to complete an average of only 2,136 tests each day, far fewer than other similarly populous states, according to our tracking data. Though the problem is national in scope, California is its known epicenter. Testing backlogs have ballooned, slowing efficient patient care and delivering a heavily lagged view of the outbreak to decision makers. Its main cause is not the federal government, nor state public-health labs, but the private companies that now dominate the country’s testing capacity. Our reporting has unearthed a new coronavirus-testing crisis. reported that 1 million people have been tested for the coronavirus-a milestone that the White House once promised it would hit the first week of March.īut things are not going as smoothly as the top-line numbers might suggest. Over the past five days, the states have reported a daily average of 104,000 people tested, according to data assembled by the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer collaboration incubated at The Atlantic. ![]() On the surface, the American COVID-19 testing regime has finally hit its stride.
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