The Florida Department of Health released its daily coronavirus testing report showing a statewide positivity rate of 11 percent, but FOX 35 News investigated and quickly noticed some shocking positivity rates.
Countless labs report 100 percent positivity, which means every single person tested was positive.
FOX 35 sifted through the report to find local testing sites with high numbers, like Centra Care, where the report showed 83 people were tested and all tested positive. The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA said officials are looking into the numbers.
NCF Diagnostics has a location in Alachua, which reported 88 percent of tests coming back positive and 98 percent for Orlando Health.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every location mentioned. Orlando Health, the only to answer our question, confirmed errors in the report. Its positivity rate is in fact only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
what is the matter? it’s just a silly decimal point mistake.
So what are the real number of infections so loudly and incorrectly announced. Businesses are being forced to shut down they are playing with peoples lives here.
Stories are floating that applying for a test on line never getting swabbed due to long lies and getting an email that you are positive. No the virus itself is not a hoax but they are playing hokey pokey with numbers, aka by scarf lady, granular data. GIGO
Oh, it’s just a couple of decimal points. Funny, isn’t it, how all these “mistakes” always go in only one direction?
Unfortunately, hospitals are filling up and the daily death count is also rising.
Coronavirus deaths rise to 133 in Florida, 26 in Pinellas on Tuesday
@Greg: Did they die of the kung flu or simply test positive of the kung flu? Lots of reasons people croak the cdc doesnt care why just what the test reads.
Dr. Charles Lockwood the dean of the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida, said in an interview on CNN that the state has more emergency hospital capacity than at the start of the pandemic.