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More Florida Covid Craziness – One Local News Station Finds Multiple Clinics Errantly Reporting 100% ‘Positive’ Test Results
RedState ^ | July 14, 2020 | Brad Slager

Posted on 07/14/2020 11:57:22 AM PDT by sickoflibs

It is becoming apparent that injecting politics into coronavirus reporting is contagious.

The state of Florida has become the ever-growing focus of activities surrounding the coronavirus and the way it is handled by the politicians. The reasons for this are numerous: Florida is a swing state in November, GOP leadership is at the helm, the press is desperate to cover for the incompetence seen by the Mayor and the Governor in New York, and any good news on the COVID front cannot be allowed to make President Trump look good in any fashion.

As Governor Ron DeSantis has done a good job with managing this pandemic, the media have been intent on only making things look bad. Yesterday, I reported how the blaring headlines of record cases in the state were done to overlook the drop in infection rates and the constant diminishing of deaths by the virus. Now, today, we are learning the data from local clinics may be severely error-prone and inflating the numbers higher.

Local news channel Fox 35 in Orlando poured through the individual reports from labs across the state and found that an alarming number of these clinics are reporting 100% positive results with coronavirus tests. This defies the running averages seen in most areas, which typically are 85-90% lower. The station contacted a number of the clinics reporting these wildly high figures with one of them announcing that their report of 98% positive results should have in fact been only 9.4%.

The press has had a field day over the past weeks raging about the irresponsibility of leaders like DeSantis who have called for states to open back up, and now we need to question whether these infection rates have been artificially inflated, and by how much? What makes this all the more disturbing is every state is looking into how they will manage things like the opening of schools in the coming months, and now we see indications that the infection rates may be incorrectly reported as much higher than the reality.

If this story trends even just in this isolated capacity, it reveals a serious problem, but if this proves out to have been an ongoing practice then it is a severely irresponsible issue. The media has been on a course of looking for only negatives to report regarding the outbreak, both in Florida and nationwide. In the case of Andrew Cuomo in New York, you see the political bias in play, as the press has strained to applaud the efforts of the Democrat Governor. The numbers revealed yesterday that Florida, where the press is intent on leveling criticism upon DeSantis, has a death rate per 100,000 so low that Cuomo’s average is over 90% higher.

This is an example of the malpractice we have been served by the press in this country regarding the pandemic, and if this story evolves into a wider issue it compounds that indictment. If the positive results have been artificially inflated, there is even more reason to be critical of the people reporting on what is happening.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; coronavirus; covid19; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; florida; fraud; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rondesantis; smearmachine
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To: SkyDancer
It's because they want to shut down the economy again till November. The June jobs figures were too good. Can't have that.
21 posted on 07/14/2020 12:34:50 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SkyDancer; All
Yup, and I betcha this is happening all over the country. Bounties on dead bodies counted on death by Covid. Tree shredder deaths are undoubtedly counted as Covid19.

This is why we don’t pay attention to the daily Covid numbers hysteria. It’s all BS.

22 posted on 07/14/2020 12:40:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

It’s all $$ is what it is. Money!


23 posted on 07/14/2020 12:41:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: sickoflibs

Shows how pervasive the deep state seditionists are


24 posted on 07/14/2020 12:48:37 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: sickoflibs

No, Desantis absolutely did NOT “call for states to open up.”

And I know dozens of people who have been tested and none tested positive. Not one.


25 posted on 07/14/2020 12:52:28 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: sickoflibs

“wildly high figures with one of them announcing that their report of 98% positive results should have in fact been only 9.4%.”

Headline news on CNN tonight!

HaHa

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26 posted on 07/14/2020 1:32:17 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: sickoflibs

Just shift one little decimal point and have your cases increase by a factor of ten. brilliant!


27 posted on 07/14/2020 1:39:39 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: sickoflibs

Did they report the actual number of positives incorrectly, or just the rates? I didn’t see that mentioned inthe article or in the tv station’s report.


28 posted on 07/14/2020 1:47:07 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: sickoflibs

The Orlando Slantinel was deporting 98%! Got called out and, oops, was sposta be something like 6%?!


29 posted on 07/14/2020 3:27:26 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

deporting=reporting


30 posted on 07/14/2020 3:29:46 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: I want the USA back; sickoflibs; EvilCapitalist

31 posted on 07/14/2020 3:30:01 PM PDT by 4Liberty (CoVid19, n. A seasonal respiratory infection politicized to harm the U.S. economy & its President.)
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RE:”Did they report the actual number of positives incorrectly, or just the rates? I didn’t see that mentioned inthe article or in the tv station’s report.”

This explains it

The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report. The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA told FOX 35 News on Tuesday that this does not reflect their numbers and that the positivity rate for the center is actually 6 percent
FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results(Labs admit that reports to FL state in error)

32 posted on 07/14/2020 6:45:27 PM PDT by sickoflibs (BREAKING NEWS: BLM cures COVID-19, it's safe to go out and protest Trump again.)
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