April 2 Update: US COVID-19 Test Results per Day; More Testing Needed - InvestingChannel

April 2 Update: US COVID-19 Test Results per Day; More Testing Needed

The testing shortfall continues. We need someone in charge resolving any bottleneck issues – PPE, manpower, swabs, reagents – whatever the issue, someone needs to be fixing it.

Test-and-trace is a key criteria in starting to reopen the country.   My current guess is test-and-trace will require around 300,000 tests per day at first since the US is far behind the curve.

Notes: Data for the previous couple of days is updated and revised, so graphs might change.

Also, I’m no longer including pending tests.  So this is just test results reported daily.

There were 103,940 test results reported over the last 24 hours.

COVID-19 Tests per Day Click on graph for larger image.

This data is from the COVID Tracking Project.

The percent positive over the last 24 hours was 26% (red line – going the wrong way).

Test. Test. Test. Protect healthcare workers first!

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