The Atlantic has an effort to break this tracking down on a state-by-state basis (<a href="https://covidtracking.com/data/" rel="nofollow">https://covidtracking.com/data/</a>) which definitely has some interesting nuggets and gives some color on how they arrive at their numbers on a per-state basis.
This page says it includes public health labs, but as far as I know quite a bit of the US' testing capacity is private labs (at least 30% according to [1].) Does anyone know if those are included here? And if not, where a good total count can be found?<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/COVID2019tests/status/1239231234825490437?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/COVID2019tests/status/123923123482549043...</a>
See also: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22567004" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22567004</a>
I don't think number of tests is of much interest currently - it's not very important, in terms of required action, if US has 10k or 100k infected.
At this point it seems like the CDC has just capitulated and stopped trying, figuring that the private labs will pick up the slack. There are real, technical details to debate (e.g. the manufacturing error on their first test kit), but at this point it's simple misadministration.<p>If there was ever a clear case for the "You had one job." meme, this is it. Epidemic and pandemic response is the reason the Center for Disease Control exists at all. And they... they didn't.