November 11, 2020 – The U.S. is running more Covid-19 tests each day than at any other point during the pandemic, but the increased testing doesn’t fully explain recent case surges across the nation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The seven-day average of newly reported cases has more than doubled since the end of September, while the 7-day average for new daily tests done in the U.S. climbed 31% in the same span, according to case data collected by Johns Hopkins University and testing estimates from the Covid Tracking Project.
Additionally, tens of millions of available tests are going unused, prompting the federal government to pause some distribution of rapid tests until states use the supplies that have already been sent, WSJ reports.
The seven-day average of new daily cases was growing faster than the 14-day average in 50 states as of Sunday, according to a WSJ analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, while 105,927 new cases were reported across the country that day.
The 7-day average positivity rate in the U.S. was 8% as of Sunday, according to estimates from the Covid Tracking Project…