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cord-270953-z2zwdxrk	Hittner, J. B.	Early and massive testing saves lives: COVID-19 related infections and deaths in the United States during March of 2020	2020-05-16		.txt	text/plain	1966	148	56	Analyzing the epidemic data reported in all 50 states of the USA, 61 during March of 2020 (the month when testing started), we investigated whether testing-related 62 variables -including massive and early testing− predict mortality. However, for predicting 86 deaths per million citizens, the apparent prevalence rate was a 3.5 times stronger predictor than 87 was the number of confirmed cases (Supplemental Table 2B) . Whether cases or fatalities are considered, findings indicate that reporting COVID-19 93 data as counts is not as informative as reporting metrics that consider two or more interacting 94 quantities, such as the apparent prevalence rate and the number of deaths/million citizens. For example, a recombination of those variables (the number of tests 105 performed in week I/million citizens/population density) empirically demonstrate that massive 106 and early testing may save lives (Figs.	./cache/cord-270953-z2zwdxrk.txt	./txt/cord-270953-z2zwdxrk.txt