The state’s daily COVID-19 update brought encouraging news on Monday: there were no new deaths and the fewest newly-shown cases since June 23, however, a persistent question arose: why so few people get tested?
The 3818 new effects are the smallest batch reported through the Department of Health Services since June 1 and the smallest time since May 11.
Of those results, 266 were positive, or 7%. The last time so few people tested positive in one day, compared to 263 on June 23, it was 3 times more than many other people tested positive (11,794).
And while the seven-day average of new instances increased from a peak of 930 on July 26 to 678 on Monday, the seven-day percentage of positive testing for COVID-19 was higher over the same period, from 6.8% to 8.5%.
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More than two dozen network verification sites indexed through DHS as “continuous” offerings are not active lately, according to state data, as fitness service providers reported a shortage of materials needed to verify this month.
And DHS Secretary Andrea Palm recently said the state’s assessment capability is ideal given that students will return to school during the fall.
Despite this, state labs still reported that they could control only another 27,000 people a day as of Monday, more than is being controlled.
Laboratories will have to perform duplicate tests of the same people, such as an essential staff or those of at-risk populations, which are not included in the daily abstract knowledge of the State Department of Health.
But even with these tests taken into account, the state does not have this theoretical capability.Preliminary figures for Saturday, for example, show that 13,901 tests were conducted, just over some of the reported capacity.
As the scarcity and accumulation of evidence accumulated in some parts of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new rules last week stating that other people without symptoms “don’t necessarily want a test, before re-considering that feeling later in the week.
Public fitness officials have argued from the beginning of the pandemic that it is vital to check who has been exposed to the virus so that they can have a concept of their existing activity and seek contacts to avoid further spread.
Of 75,603 Wisconsinites tested for COVID-19:
New hospitalizations involving COVID-19 have recently decreased: On Sunday afternoon, Wisconsin hospitals reported that 287 hospitalized patients showed cases of COVID-19, 34 fewer than last week, adding 104 in intensive care and 154 additional inpatients were waiting for results.
The County Health Department’s state COVID-19 activity tests were as follows when updated once a week on Wednesday, Aug. 26: The parentheses reflect a replacement in the activity point from last week’s assessment .
Note that assessments are based on a combination of the total number of new instances for another 100,000 people in the last two weeks and the percentage variation of new instances between the last seven days and the last seven days.
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