That was a big f***ing deal. !
18 Jul: 10WJAR: Rhode Island received 113 false positive COVID-19 test results from private lab
by FRANK MARADIAGA, NBC 10 NEWS
Health officials say that 113 individuals were told they were COVID-19 positive when they were actually negative.
RIDOH says the laboratory is located in New York and is a partner lab of East Side Clinical Laboratory...
RIDOH says the lab identified the issue with the accuracy and concluded that the initial sample handling in the lab produced the false positives with the batch...
The RIDOH told NBC 10’s Katie Davis that some of those false positive results included nursing home staff, but it is unclear how many.
https://turnto10.com/news/local/rhode-island-received-113-false-positive-covid-19-test-results-from-private-lab
17 Jul: VT Digger: Levine says Manchester Covid-19 cases may be false positives
By Katie Jickling
Health Commissioner Mark Levine cast doubt on the 59 reported Covid cases in Manchester on Friday, saying that the test results may have been false positives.
The Department of Health has confirmed just two of the cases in follow-up testing. Fifteen of the 59 have tested negative in subsequent tests, Levine said. ..
https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/17/levine-says-manchester-covid-19-cases-may-be-false-positives/