Nevada became one of the last states to publicly report rapid antigen tests as part of its coronavirus tallies — a move that experts said could provide a fuller picture of the pandemic but also upend metrics used to gauge how the virus is spreading.
The change leaves Maryland as the lone U.S. state that doesn’t incorporate rapid tests in its online dashboard or include them in virus statistics, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends, according to an Associated Press review of dashboards and policies for all 50 states.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas epidemiologist Brian Labus said scientists never assumed testing data provided a complete picture of COVID-19′s trajectory and instead used it to pinpoint trends. It’s easier to gauge when COVID-19 surges and drops if cases are counted the same way, he said, especially regarding statistics used to determine the need for prevention measures like mask mandates.
With a drop in new cases, Nevada now has the capacity to investigate positive antigen tests as probable coronavirus cases, Peek-Bullock said. Nevada wasn’t the only state struggling to process hundreds of thousands of different kinds of tests, said Janet Hamilton, the executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Test results aren’t transmitted electronically from providers to health departments, forcing them to process large volumes of paper. Those kinds of time-consuming undertakings stem from a long-term lack of funding for public health systems and infrastructure nationwide, she said.
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