Pictures, few words: Under-rated ratios
As in investing, balance sheet & accounting quality come before P&L
Adequacy of testing can reveal more than results of testing.
I deliberately share more pictures, fewer words, so that you can make your own inferences on state-wise testing disparities.
Hint: top-left is bad.
succinctly captured Sir ....very deep ..thanks ....you should post more frequently !
I didn't think this clarification was necessary but after a poorly thought out comment (that I had to delete), it's worth clarifying that TPR is an output metric (ie. it covers how well we're tracking covid). TPM is just an input metric with no reference to covid. If TPR is low, we're done. If TPR is low with low TPM, we got lucky (disease spread low). If we had to boost TPM to reach low TPR, we had to work harder on testing as disease spread high. If even after high TPM, TPR is still high (e.g. MH, KL), it's not ideal but at least, we tried hard. If TPR is high & TPM is low, we're inadequately tracking disease & we're not even trying to fix it. Ergo, top left bad. Second worst is actually top-right, not bottom-left. TPR is the more important metric & it being high is bad.