by Calculated Risk on 5/06/2020 05:13:00 PM

An excellent article by Derek Thompson, on test and trace in South Korea, in The Atlantic: What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism?

The US might be able to test 400,000 to 600,000 people per day sometime in May according to Dr. Fauci - and that would probably be sufficient for test and trace.

There were 215,433 test results reported over the last 24 hours (the number of tests yesterday were revised up).

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This data is from the COVID Tracking Project.

The percent positive over the last 24 hours was 10.3% (red line). The US probably needs enough tests to push  the percentage positive below 5%. (probably much lower based on testing in New Zealand).