seems to me, the volume would preclude verification.
seems to me, the volume would preclude verification.
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You may be right, but this is all kept in computerized systems. The doctor attributing a medical diagnoses code to a patient signs off on it. A medical technician uploading or directly importing test results is known by their database login. It’s possible to know WHO attributed the patient with the test result/diagnosis and what information they based it on (is there a test result from a lab).
The hospital automates the generation of reports with search criteria “all patients with a diagnoses of Covid-19” or “a positive test of Coronavirus.” Such reports list the total number of records retrieved for a reporting time period for the institution and those records are kept and used for billing. This data is backward traceable to the lab. I believe the labs are under increasing scrutiny so it’s a case of tightening the net on fake positive tests, fake Covid-19 diagnoses.
But “fast result” tests taken on the spot are likely open to fakery too. One challenge after another, but as the numbers are spiraling down it seems to be the result of “net tightening” otherwise the numbers would still be falsely galloping to stratosphere.