Coronavirus: How the U.S. has massively increased its testing capacity

“Testing is the lynchpin to all public health measures put in place,” Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Lauren Sauer said on “Bloomberg Surveillance” this week. On February 27 there were 2 people tested in the U.S. for COVID-19. On March 27, total tests were 665,689 tested and on April 27 there were 5,593,495 tested and a capacity to test more than 200,000 per day in place. Of those more than 5.59 million tests 981,134 were positive with 4,077 pendin