Without proper testing, the numbers will be, if not already, artificially skewed. If you don't test, you can't record the positives. If you can't record the positives, they don't get included into the state and county tallies, nor do they get reported to the CDC. If you can't record s positive, you can't record a death as Covid related. So by not testing, the positive cases are artificially lower than what they would (or should) be.