CDC lab tests drop off a cliff, coincidentally as we're being told new cases may have peaked.

[ffr]

From the CDC's web site on Lab tests performed since March 31, 2020.

Date ----- CDC ----- US Public
Collected - Labs ----- Health Labs
3/30 ----- 5‡ ----- 10276§
3/31 ----- 34‡ ----- 9447§
4/1 ----- 10‡ ----- 7177§
4/2 ----- 32‡ ----- 4730§
4/3 ----- 33‡ ----- 603§
4/4 ----- ‡ ----- 1§

Coronavirus updates: COVID-19 death toll nears 10,000 in U.S. - CBS News
"...number of new cases reported daily in the country appears to be leveling off."

What gives, with CBS News not investigating the correlation between the drop off of testing results and the drop off of reported coronavirus cases? This looks like a cover-up in reporting.

[janterry]

1. Some states are doing most of the tests in-house

NY for instance.

[SoonerPride]

2. trump team is going to artifically bend the curve so as to open then economy by May 1st

not real numbers
followed by real surge in deaths

[smirkymonkey]

3. Exactly what I'm thinking.

And more people are going to die so that Trump can look good.

[cwydro]

4. But a tiger in a zoo can get tested.

Go figure.

[Make7]

5. The vast majority of the testing is being done in independent labs.

According to The Covid Tracking Project, the U.S. is completing over 100,000 tests per day.

https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily/

[hlthe2b]

6. This. The transition was CDC only---Public Health mainly-- Private lab & in-house majority

[Yonnie3]

7. These are not the final figures - wait a week and see what they say

The footnotes say:

‡ As of 14 March 2020, public health laboratories using the CDC assay are no longer required by FDA to submit samples to CDC for confirmation. CDC is maintaining surge capacity while focusing on other support to state public health and on improving options for diagnostics for use in the public health sector.

§ Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when specimens are accessioned, testing is performed, and results are reported. Range extended from 4 days to 7 days on March 26.

Here is a link to the CDC reporting: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html

Edited to add both footnotes

[Hoyt]

8. Deaths are the ultimate gauge, sadly.

[dweller]

9. worldometer US has added

#'s for each state on tests done and tests per million
far right columns
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

✌🏼

[Igel]

10. But they're a data aggregation site.

The data come from somewhere.