Posted on 07/12/2020 9:40:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An analysis of data released by the Florida Department of Health appears to indicate that coronavirus case numbers have been inflated as much as 30 percent by Florida health officials.
Deaths linked to COVID-19 have remained flat in Florida despite the spike in cases. While that may be partially explained by the fact that younger people are the ones largely being exposed to the virus in recent weeks, it is also possible that backlogged cases are being added and treated as new cases when, in fact, they are not.
Analysis by Just the News suggests that discrepancies between the “case date” and the “event date” of positive coronavirus cases in Florida likely meant cases in early to mid-June were undercounted and later attributed to late June and early July upon being entered into the system.
Is this happening in other states as well? The phenomenon of backlogged cases distorting data isn’t new or unique to Florida. In Michigan, a spike in deaths in April and a spike in cases in May were attributed to backlogged date being added to official tallies. In Virginia, a backlog of negative coronavirus test results went unreported by the state Department of Health in favor of positive test results. South Carolina experienced similar backlog problems in reporting of coronavirus deaths. The Texas health department revealed this week that 90 percent of its coronavirus infection data lacks the date indicating the onset of symptoms. Los Angeles County similarly posted a record number of coronavirus cases this week that included “a few thousand” backlogged cases.
The current spike in cases comes at a time when many states are implementing phased re-openings. Whether there’s a connection to the nationwide spike in cases to backlogged data hasn’t been confirmed yet.
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Your contributions to these threads are invaluable, to say the least, FRiend doctor.
Please keep contributing as often as your schedule allows.
its all lies ....funny florida has all these increases thats where the onvention is
What sort of virus is so dangerous that they have to keep testing to see if you have had it?
Come on, governor, get out front in center and call out this BS...I’m disappointed the left has upper hand in in this BS story.
All he has to say is, “why do you need a test to see if you have it if it is so bad? Shouldn’t symptoms be evident and horrible??”
I personally don’t believe that they are as accurate as advertised. They brag that they are 90% effective. That means that with 3.29 million confirmed cases, 329 thosand are bad tests. I wouldn’t have taken it except it was reqiued for the procedure.
Abbott has been a big disappointment.
When hospitals and emergency services are paid to report COVID cases how can anyone question the results /s
It’s a good question. I wish I had answers.
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