CDC muddies US testing numbers
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s new dashboard was meant to offer the public insight into the progress of the country’s outbreak — now the biggest in the world. Instead, the agency has caused confusion by lumping together antibody tests along with tests for active COVID-19 infections. Several states are making the same mistake, reports The Atlantic. Testing is a crucial pillar of outbreak control, and mixing the two numbers — people who are not infected now, and people who probably haven’t been infected in the past — renders the statistic “uninterpretable”, says public-health researcher Ashish Jha.The Atlantic | 8 min read
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