With new case numbers only being reported once a week, as well as the growth in at-home testing that usually goes unreported. The question becomes how useful is it to follow the 7-day moving average, or even the weekly cases? People want to know how big of an impact at-home testing is having on the numbers. It’s probably fairly significant. It’s been estimated by the Department of Health and Human Services that the number of at-home tests done every day is somewhere around two to four times the number of tests done in labs. Many of them are negative, but when they are positive, the mechanism to report the results are very weak. But there are plans to improve it.
