More than 1 million Americans have been tested for the novel coronavirus. More than 200,000 have tested positive.
And though capacity is, finally, increasing after a much-criticized government rollout of the tests, states are still reporting major backlogs in getting results. Federal guidelines prioritize hospitalized patients, health-care workers and first responders with COVID-19 symptoms because of testing's scarcity.New York is out front, with more than 230,000 people tested, and it's also way ahead on a per capita basis, too, testing more than 1,200 per 100,000 people.
California's issue lies in a massive logjam of pending tests: more than 59,000. But it's not the only state facing backlogs; South Carolina's state epidemiologistPresident Donald Trump Based on Thursday's totals, the U.S. had tested 1,267,658 people, according to the COVID Tracking Project, which aggregates state-reported data. Italy had tested more than 580,000, and South Korea, more than 430,000.What's the issue? A shortage of the materials needed to run the tests, including the chemicals, as South Carolina's state epidemiologist noted, but also of swabs and other basic supplies.
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