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No, soaring COVID-19 cases are not due to more testing – they show a surging pandemic

  • Written by Zoë McLaren, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
No, soaring COVID-19 cases are not due to more testing – they show a surging pandemicAccess to testing had been improving across the U.S., but as cases increase, more testing is needed.AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight days later. Some believe this increase in reported is a result of increases in testing, as...

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