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For the first time in the pandemic, the United States has noticed a downward trend in the number of coronavirus tests performed each day.
By Sarah Mervosh, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
For months, public fitness experts and federal officials have said that it is imperative to particularly increase the amount of coronavirus tests administered in the United States to the pandemic. By some estimates, several million more people may want to get tested every day, adding many other people who don’t feel sick.
But the country remains well below this benchmark and, for the first time, the number of known tests conducted per day has decreased.
The reported daily checks have had a downward trend for much of the next two weeks, necessarily blocking the reaction to national controls. An average of 733,000 more people were reviewed each day this month, up from 750,000 in July, according to the COVID Monitoring Project. The average seven-day check fell to 709,000 on Monday, the lowest in nearly a month, before recovering over the weekend.
This worrying trend comes after months of stable accumulation in checking accounts and possibly partly reflects the fact that there are fewer people for checks, as known instances have stabilized by more than 50,000 per day, after expanding further this summer. But the verification board may also reflect other people’s frustration with the prospect of long queues and delays in gaining effects, as well as some other basic problem: the country has yet to build a physically powerful formula for controlling giant amounts of the population, not just those to check.
Six months after the onset of the pandemic, verification remains a major impediment to U.S. efforts to prevent coronavirus. Some of the sources of scarcity that caused previous disorders have been alleviated, but even after improvements, the control effects in some cases are not yet recovered within a day or two, making it difficult to temporarily isolate patients and insinuate their contacts. Now, the number of controls administered has shrunk as the country prepares for the option of increasing as schools reopen and cooler weather pushes others into.
“Obviously, we’re doing enough,” said Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Duke-Margolis Health Policy Center and commissioner of former President George W. Bush’s Food and Drug Administration.
The downward trend may be only a short-term setback: the country reported more than 800,000 tests on Thursday and Friday. There are also data limitations, which come in large part from state fitness services, some of which have recently been dealing with delays and other problems. It cannot come with tests performed in laboratories not qualified by the federal government.
But according to available figures, evidence was reduced in 20 states this week, and knowledge gathered through the Department of Health and Human Services showed a similar overall trend nationally.
Without a highly effective vaccine or treatment, widespread testing is considered the cornerstone of pandemic combat in which up to 40% of other inflamed people show no symptoms and can spread the virus unknowingly. Testing a large number of other people is essential to see where the virus is headed and identify hot spots before they get out of control. Experts see in-depth testing as a key detail in the reopening of schools, businesses and sports.
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