Depending on when/where that was during the pandemic,
unless you were able to find background positivity rates (the best proxy for community infection rates), published test rate data was always noisy and after testing mandates were relaxed became all but literally meaningless,
and there is also an apples/oranges issues trying to correlate hospitalization rates as vaccination and different waves moved through (among other factors).
Getting a clear picture has been devilishly hard...
...and about 100x harder than it needed to be, if we had competent governance involved from the beginning. E.g. OSHA and CDC mandating comprehensive ongoing PCR at scale; schools doing weekly testing regardless of symptoms, with consistent reporting standards, etc ad nausuem.
unless you were able to find background positivity rates (the best proxy for community infection rates), published test rate data was always noisy and after testing mandates were relaxed became all but literally meaningless,
and there is also an apples/oranges issues trying to correlate hospitalization rates as vaccination and different waves moved through (among other factors).
Getting a clear picture has been devilishly hard...
...and about 100x harder than it needed to be, if we had competent governance involved from the beginning. E.g. OSHA and CDC mandating comprehensive ongoing PCR at scale; schools doing weekly testing regardless of symptoms, with consistent reporting standards, etc ad nausuem.
Sigh.