How to Understand Your State’s Coronavirus Numbers
As the outbreak spreads, state websites are still some of the best sources of information on how many people have been tested.
Every piece of data we currently have about the novel coronavirus is imperfect and incomplete.
Almost three weeks after the first confirmed case of community spread—a patient who had not traveled anywhere with known cases or had contact with anyone known to be infected— the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still is not publishing state-level data about how many people have been tested for the virus.
As a result, has been maintaining the , the only source of state-level testing data through time, in collaboration with the
