{"id":9536,"date":"2020-04-17T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T10:16:52","slug":"us-covid-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9536","title":{"rendered":"US Covid testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/04\/us-coronavirus-outbreak-out-control-test-positivity-rate\/610132\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The high positivity rate also suggests that new cases in the U.S. have plateaued only because the country has hit a ceiling in its testing capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Since April 1, the country has tested roughly 145,000 people every day with no steady upward trajectory. The growth in the number of new cases per day, and the growth in the number of new tests per day, are very tightly correlated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-19-case-growth-and-covid-19-test-growth-April-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-19-case-growth-and-covid-19-test-growth-April-2020.png 672w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-19-case-growth-and-covid-19-test-growth-April-2020-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic: The high positivity rate also suggests that new cases in the U.S. have plateaued only because the country has hit a ceiling in its testing capacity. \u2026 Since April 1, the country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9536\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}