Just a reminder to anyone believing officials saying we’re doing great on testing in the USA, were absolutely not. In Texas for example, most tests are done by labs who then fax their results to the Texas govt medical offices who then need to hand enter that information into a database… frequently having to follow up for demographic information that may not be on the faxed form. Yes, faxing the info and rekeying it at least doubles the chances of errors. Results can often take 10-12 days. Obviously by that time people have infected many many more people.
This also means the official case number details you are seeing are 2 weeks out of date.
And no, we still don’t have enough tests, in Texas or anywhere in the USA. Also not all tests are equal and many don’t have full FDA approval and give a high percentage of false positives/negatives.
We are really really bad at this.