Unlike other major cities and other counties in the state, NYC isn't tracking the results of at-home tests. City officials say the results aren't included as they can't be independently verified—here's what can be missed by not including the data.
Because it is an honor system, DC Health keeps a separate spreadsheet with self-reported results, and these numbers don’t factor into its official case counting or positivity records. Ashley said he and his colleagues are fully aware of the data quality issues that come with this self-reporting.
By contrast, New York City has issued 8.1 million kits, of which 6.6. million went to schools. That’s fewer than one kit per resident. “We want to understand who [these new cases] are and if the cases are occurring in a different demographic group than what we would typically expect,” she said. The county has recorded 1,550 positive self-tests since December 24th, while conventional testing documented 5,767 cases. Stated differently, the at-home program detected up to an extra 26% of cases.
Or maybe it doesn’t matter? The decline in testing numbers could be a result of “COVID fatigue,” or the general sense of Americans “learning to live with the virus.”
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