by Calculated Risk on 8/20/2020 06:28:00 PM

The US is now mostly reporting over 700,000 tests per day (fewer recently). Based on the experience of other countries, the percent positive needs to be well under 5% to really push down new infections, so the US still needs to increase the number of tests per day significantly (or take actions to push down the number of new infections).

There were 635,809 test results reported over the last 24 hours.

There were 43,245 positive tests.

There have been 20,717 COVID deaths in the first 20 days of August. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.

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This data is from the COVID Tracking Project.

The percent positive over the last 24 hours was 6.8% (red line).

For the status of contact tracing by state, check out testandtrace.com.

And check out COVID Exit Strategy to see how each state is doing.