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is validation of the many "new" tests and more dire, the availability (or lack thereof) of sample transport media. You can have all the swabs you want but once those swabs have been utilized in an individual, they need to be placed in media that will preserve the collected mucous material until it can be run through PCR testing (or similar). Apparently what they are doing with it is promoting replication of the genetic material and then treating it so that components of it fluoresce (which can be detected by a fluorometer).

Plus having the resources to do contact-tracing in order to make sure that anyone exposed to someone who is confirmed positive, gets notified - which is something they attempted early on and it just exploded to become too cumbersome a job to do.

With respect to the fluctuating death count - that was not something they had been doing all along. They apparently attempted to do it only this week and then decided against doing it - with the recognition that some locations were reporting deaths to the state as "COVID-19" but then later admitting that no test had been done to confirm that. This does not mean that the death was not due to it but that it was not CONFIRMED BY TESTING to have been the cause.

The fact that you have who knows how many asymptomatic individuals - essentially the equivalent of being "Typhoid Mary-style carriers" - circulating around, is extremely concerning.