Nirya
Well-Known Member
Also remember that actual testing kits were in low supply until just very recently. The more people you test a day might increase known cases, but also lower the percentage amount of the amount of positive cases found, due to testing earlier in the disease cycle.
Actual testing kits were in low supply because the CDC decided to try to make their own kits rather than use the WHO ones that were already made and proven to work. The CDC kits then proved to be unreliable, and only now are we starting to see CDC-approved tests that actually work as intended.
In the rest of the world, the amount of testing kits were fine. The issue with counting is similar to flu, in that a lot of people only get mild symptoms and so do not end up needing to go to the hospital, and thus never get tested.