5 Million People in the U.S. Have Tested Positive for COVID-19 as Surges Continue Around the Country
A health worker performs a COVID-19 nasal swab test in New York City on July 29, 2020.ore than 5 million people in the U.S.—about 1.5% of the country’s total population—have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Aug. 9,The U.S. now accounts for roughly 25% of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide. Its overall case count is millions higher that of the next-hardest-hit country: Brazil, which according to official records has about 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Aug. 9.
New U.S. cases are also accumulating faster than they did in the pandemic’s early months. The country recorded 1 million diagnoses on April 28. It then took about six weeks to hit 2 million cases, and another month to hit 3 million. From there, only about two weeks passed before the country hit thePart of that uptick is due to better. When the pandemic first hit the U.S., many people with relatively mild cases could not get tested, leaving gaping holes in the official data.
are still a significant issue. That means official case counts are still underestimates, albeit staggeringly high underestimates.why so many states are seeing surges right now. If testing practices alone were behind the skyrocketing numbers in places like Florida, California and Texas, the raw number of positive cases would be expected to go up—but the proportion of tests coming back positive would likely go down, since more negative test results would also be captured by the data.
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