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FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results
fox35orlando.com ^ | July 14, 2020 | Robert Guaderrama

Posted on 07/14/2020 12:47:02 PM PDT by ransomnote

After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.

Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive

How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.

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 News went on to speak with the Florida Department of Health on Tuesday. They confirmed that although private and public laboratories are required to report positive and negative results to the state immediately, some have not. Specifically, they said that some smaller, private labs were not reporting negative test result data to the state. 

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: covid19; florida
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1 posted on 07/14/2020 12:47:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
I find it quite “interesting” that the math exaggerations all go in one direction!

Absolutely no coincidences here - this was all contrived by different labs, using different test subjects, at different days, yet all report from upper 70% to almost 99%!

Sounds like election results in, say, Cuba, Venezuela or China!

2 posted on 07/14/2020 3:01:10 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: ransomnote
Commercial and government laboratories have to maintain various certifications that entail outside audits of their quality control. The scope of the audit starts when a sample first arrives into the lab’s legal chain of custody through storage and analysis to production of the analytical results for customer delivery.

I find it hard to believe that so many labs would be messing with their reporting in the way described. This would basically shut them down via temporary or permanent loss of certifications required to function and to get insurance. Opens them up to lawsuits and probably some criminal liabilities as well. My money is these funny numbers are being generated at the state and/or fed agency end.

Lab reporting of this type is computerized at the lab level. For that matter, individual samples are largely tracked by barcode and and most instruments report their data directly into the data system. Lab reports come in 3 flavors so to speak, ie. brief, standard and full. Brief has the results and key quality control summary, the standard report adds in additional quality control info. The full report includes the whole kitchen sink of quality control info and will make your eyes glaze over. I have tried using brief reports a few times just to make my job easier but even so, the labs strongly prefer using their standard format so I just end up with two stacks of paper to file. I limited requesting full reports unless lawyers were involved.

I’ll stop rambling now! Yea!

3 posted on 07/14/2020 5:21:23 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99
I appreciate your interesting information. Thank you for posting it.
The problem is that information is sent to the CDC first. Yeah. Looks like the CDC was "selecting" what to report etc.

That's probably why president Trump announced today that now all hospital data will go to a Washington database.

Administration Orders Hospitals to Bypass the CDC With Key Virus Data

7/14/2020, 1:46:10 PM ·
ransomnote
 

The President gave the reason as logistics for rapidly routing supplies but I think the fact that it happened on the same day Fox News had two reports on this issue is uhmm...more than coincidental. The other Fox News report is below.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Hospitals confirm mistakes in Florida’s COVID-19 report

7/14/2020, 8:52:10 AM · by NImerc ·
FOX 35 Orlando ^ | July 13, 2020 | Robert Guaderrama

 


4 posted on 07/14/2020 5:34:36 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
I foresee some substantial information coming in 2-4 weeks on this curious skewing of Covid test data. Here’s a take on how this could develop.

The feds have on contract analytical lab auditors that periodically make unannounced visits to fed analytical labs across the US and world. The feds have labs all over the place. How this could come down is to pair an auditor with a FBI agent equipped with a search warrant. For a narrow scope audit such as this it would likely take a day or two to see what went on at the lab end if anything.

5 posted on 07/14/2020 6:23:19 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: ransomnote
I foresee some substantial information coming in 2-4 weeks on this curious skewing of Covid test data. Here’s a take on how this could develop.

The feds have on contract analytical lab auditors that periodically make unannounced visits to fed analytical labs across the US and world. The feds have labs all over the place. How this could come down is to pair an auditor with a FBI agent equipped with a search warrant. For a narrow scope audit such as this it would likely take a day or two to see what went on at the lab end if anything.

6 posted on 07/14/2020 6:28:19 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99

I foresee some substantial information coming in 2-4 weeks on this curious skewing of Covid test data. Here’s a take on how this could develop.

The feds have on contract analytical lab auditors that periodically make unannounced visits to fed analytical labs across the US and world. The feds have labs all over the place. How this could come down is to pair an auditor with a FBI agent equipped with a search warrant. For a narrow scope audit such as this it would likely take a day or two to see what went on at the lab end if anything
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Thank you for the insight. :D
There could be an extra heapin’ helpin’ of oversight headed their way. I believe President Trump’s commitment to sending a federal team to support “hot spots” had a lot to do with looking at their numbers VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY carefully for accuracy. :)


7 posted on 07/14/2020 6:48:47 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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