WASHINGTON — A steep drop off in coronavirus testing nationally has the Biden administration worried that the spread of COVID-19 may be worse in some areas than it appears.
As the population of vaccinated Americans has grown, COVID-19 testing has declined. Experts are concerned the reduced testing may be masking pockets of infection that, if left unchecked, could result in greater coronavirus spread.
“One of my worries is that we are not testing enough in areas where vaccination rates are low,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told McClatchy. “So we may even have a larger number of cases than what we’re actually seeing recorded. And so we’ve got to test more aggressively so we can understand where the infection is.”
