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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
imageAccess 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 cases is a result of increases in testing,...

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