Problem with that claim is, there isn’t a “spike” in testing, the number of tests performed has been rising extremely linearly. By that logic the number of cases should also be rising linearly, right?
You can see that there isn’t a “spike in testing.” It just goes up linearly at a pretty constant rate. There is an increase, though, in the PERCENT of tests that come back positive for infection, which indicates that infection rate is actually rising...
Problem with that claim is, there isn’t a “spike” in testing, the number of tests performed has been rising extremely linearly. By that logic the number of cases should also be rising linearly, right?
Here’s the actual data:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
You can see that there isn’t a “spike in testing.” It just goes up linearly at a pretty constant rate. There is an increase, though, in the PERCENT of tests that come back positive for infection, which indicates that infection rate is actually rising...