Major cities are struggling with racial disparities in coronavirus cases. CNN's DonLemon breaks down the numbers. ColorOfCovid
America needs to test half a million people a day before it can reopen, experts sayA medical worker prepares to test a patient for coronavirus on April 15, in Woodbridge, Virginia. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Currently, about 150,000 tests per day are completed, and about 20% of those have been positive. More testing is necessary to properly understand who is infected and might put others at risk, researchers said. To achieve a 10% test positivity rate by May 1, about 580,000 people per day would need to be tested, research shows.Dr. Thomas Tsai, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthJha wrote in an email to CNN that a formal write-up of their research will be available soon.
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