Low testing may be hiding a COVID wave hitting Texas, experts say

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Looking at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would give the impression that COVID-19 is generally under control in Texas.

The federal agency's map of levels of COVID-19 spread in the community shows most counties in the state are classified as "low" or "medium."

But public health experts said this doesn't tell the true story and that case counts are artificially low in Texas due to low levels of testing reported to public health officials.

"There are limitations to this metric by the CDC," Dr. Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, an infectious disease specialist at UTHealth Houston and Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, told ABC News. "The primary diver for the first part of the metric is the number of cases and then you get into hospitalizations and percentage of occupancy by COVID-19 patients."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/low-testing-may-be-hiding-a-covid-wave-hitting-texas-experts-say/ar-AAYwXsn

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1. Think this

is true in MO too and probably every other state.

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2. Yep. definitely true for Louisiana.

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3. One of my law partners and his family has COVID for the second time