Coronavirus Testing In Hot Spot States Is Declining — And Nobody Knows Why. That’s Bad.

Coronavirus testing in Texas and Florida has taken a nosedive since the middle of July. Epidemiologists worry that this shift means the states are flying in the dark just as their surveillance systems are urgently needed to detect any uptick in COVID-19 cases caused by school reopenings.

“I think we should be very concerned,” Angela Clendenin, an epidemiologist at Texas A&M University in College Station, told BuzzFeed News.

Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, tweeted his alarm about the situation in Texas: “Why is testing falling off...