{"id":759040,"date":"2020-05-21T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759040"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:20:00","slug":"the-cdc-is-screwing-up-how-we-count-covid-19-testing-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759040","title":{"rendered":"The CDC Is Screwing Up How We Count Covid-19 Testing Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jfi9w7y5opkp4vakdspm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with several states, are muddling\u00a0the statistics on covid-19 testing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/05\/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas\/611935\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting<\/a> from The Atlantic and other media outlets. They have combined the results of two different types of tests in their tallies released to the public, only one of which is\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-cdc-is-screwing-up-how-we-count-covid-19-testing-nu-1843588329\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-cdc-is-screwing-up-how-we-count-covid-19-testing-nu-1843588329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CDC Is Screwing Up How We Count Covid-19 Testing Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with several states, are muddling\u00a0the statistics on covid-19 testing, according to reporting from The Atlantic and other media outlets. They have combined the results of two different types of tests in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-759040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}