Breaking: Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported | Just The News https://t.co/C4pGxNZdkV
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 14, 2020
From Just the News:
A Florida hospital handling COVID-19 tests confirmed to media this week that its near-100% positivity rate was overstated by a factor of 10, raising already-heightened concerns that numerous labs are over reporting the number of confirmed infections.There's a huge difference between 76 percent and 6 percent, 98 percent and 9.4 percent.
...In recent days, numerous facilities have begun reporting 100% positivity rates, figures significantly higher than the statewide average of around 15%. Many of those labs claim to have tested only one patient, though others with 100% rates report testing dozens and sometimes hundreds of patients.
...Orlando news station Fox 35 said on Monday that it undertook an investigation of those "astronomical figures," after which several medical facilities confirmed that their actual positive rates were much lower than those reported to the state government.
The news station reported that area hospital Orlando Health "confirmed errors in the report," with hospital officials stating their their "positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent."
Another Orlando-area lab, Veteran’s Medical Center, listed "a positivity rate of 76 percent," but a company official said that "the positivity rate for the center is actually 6 percent."
These "errors" are unacceptable.
One of the most consequential casualties of this pandemic is the inability to trust any information as valid.
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