Quote Originally Posted by MoonPieBlue View Post
This statement kills me "Hopefully, Louisiana will meet the White House criteria and move to Phase 1 on May 15, provided symptoms, new case counts and hospitalizations decrease and the state continues to surge testing and contact tracing capacity. "

So if we surge testing (I'm assuming test more people), won't you expect to find more cases, either a-sym or mild. So we have more cases therefore we're not going to open until again we can ramp up testing and see decreases in the number of cases. Seems like a vicious circle.
Hospitilizations should be the metric, IMO. That would rule out the increased cases due to increased testing.

They still aren’t really testing asymptomatic people in the area even if they have had direct exposure to a known positive. You can probably get the test under those circumstances, but they aren’t generally going to encourage you to if you are asymptomatic. We are way too short on tests to test asymptomatics.