"It's premature," Hollywood film producer Andre Morgan told Xinhua. "The flow of reliable health information in this country from when coronavirus first struck to now has been horrendous, in terms of lack of accuracy, constantly changing their position, no consistent leadership," he said, adding that America's national health system had proven woefully inadequate to deal with the crisis in an intelligent and effective way.
Officials, however, argued that caseloads alone are not the best metric to use when determining how effective their efforts have been in curbing COVID-19.
California Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly said Friday that overall case counts do not necessarily reflect how well the state is managing the outbreak and an increase in the amount of testing done can make it seem like the number of cases are increasing when that may not be the case.
"It's easy to just focus on the number of new cases," Ghaly said at a press conference. "But... if you're not seeing a tremendous uptick in the number of hospitalizations in the right timeline or... ICU cases, that's really connected at least in California's case to an increase in testing. So I think it's always important to kind of have that in the context."
To get a more accurate bead on how well -- or how badly -- California and Los Angeles are doing, local officials are tracking two more reliable metrics: the daily number of hospitalizations and "the positivity rate" -- meaning the percentage of positive cases compared to total swabs administered. The first one indicates how many people are becoming seriously ill, and the second could indicate an actual rise in transmission of the disease.
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