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Old 05-25-2020, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by AZFlyer View Post
Most states are increasing their rate of testing. Increasing the rate of testing obviously increases the odds of producing an increased rate of detected infections, however the case count alone is not a remotely accurate picture of a given states situation. You would at a minimum want to know what the percent of negative cases are out of the daily testing numbers. There are plenty of websites out there that are aggregating those numbers for easy consumption if you were interested enough to find it.

The general trend across the nation is that infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are all decreasing. CNN et al leaves that important piece of context off the chyron for some reason.
As kingairfun said, this is accurate. But don't take my word for it - IHME agrees. Their data for The United States shows a declining trend line for daily deaths and a confirmed infection count that is roughly stable even as the number of tests given continues to increase.
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