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And...turns out its mostly smaller private labs not giving both numbers. The overall affect is minor, and makes ZERO difference to the # of positive tests, just the % of tests that are positive.
However, the positive rate is also an extremely important number. Don't discount it.
Floridians should consider themselves lucky that the screw-up was so outlandish (labs reporting 100% positive) because someone finally caught it.
Absolutely its important. I know a lot of folks dont pay attention to it, but they should. Its part of my predictive spreadsheets. the important part for me is that it appeared that it was mostly smaller labs. I'd really like to know how many, and hopefully they get it sorted so better predictions can be made on things.
However, the positive rate is also an extremely important number. Don't discount it.
Floridians should consider themselves lucky that the screw-up was so outlandish (labs reporting 100% positive) because someone finally caught it.
What people are reporting on everyday are not positivity rates in various facilities, but the number of positives in Florida, which is north of 200K now? Is that right?
OTOH, if it were false positives that would be huge difference. I suspect the samples are binned and the data was binned and then not reported or maybe there wasn't a streamlined process to report for these labs.
The Florida Department of health revealed that some labs weren't reporting the negative results, JUST the positive. So the case count is accurate, the positivity rate is lower. This IS important, but not as important as say giving inaccurate positive counts would be. Now notice something, t6he breitbart article was posted just now. The linked fox news article that includes the response by the florida department of health? Was updated 4 hours ago with that information. But reading the breitbart article....its made to sound like some huge conspiracy.
And...turns out its mostly smaller private labs not giving both numbers. The overall affect is minor, and makes ZERO difference to the # of positive tests, just the % of tests that are positive.
Yet another thread where the title is a lie.
Covid 19 numbers are not inflated by Florida labs.
The percentage of positive Covid-19 tests in relation to the total population remains the same.
Does anyone care, or even notice, what the percentage of those tested are?
BTW, in case anybody is interested in something other than Republican nonsense, over 8,000 people are currently hospitalized in Florida, and over 4,000 have already died.
As of 4 days ago, 40 hospitals had maxed out their ICU capacity and the numbers continue to climb.
Covid 19 numbers are not inflated by Florida labs.
The percentage of positive Covid-19 tests in relation to the total population remains the same.
No, the numbers were inflated by the Florida Department of Health....they admitted knowing the labs were reporting positives and not reporting negatives...and the FDH went on and included them in the random test results....that skewed the numbers
no....it changes the percentage results of people tested extremely....from 3-4%...to 12-20%
..total population infection is an estimate based on that
No, the numbers were inflated by the Florida Department of Health....they admitted knowing the labs were reporting positives and not reporting negatives...and the FDH went on and included them in the random test results....that skewed the numbers
no....it changes the percentage results of people tested extremely....from 3-4%...to 12-20%
No, the numbers were inflated by the Florida Department of Health....they admitted knowing the labs were reporting positives and not reporting negatives...and the FDH went on and included them in the random test results....that skewed the numbers
no....it changes the percentage results of people tested extremely....from 3-4%...to 12-20%
The percentage of positive tests in the population at large remains the same. From what I read, if you test positive three times in a row, it is still count it is one positive.
The percentage of those who were tested changes. But then who the hell cares about that?
The title of the thread is that the numbers were inflated. They were not.
With the hospitalizations= exceeding hospital capacity, this whole argument is just beyond silly.
No, the numbers were inflated by the Florida Department of Health....they admitted knowing the labs were reporting positives and not reporting negatives...and the FDH went on and included them in the random test results....that skewed the numbers
no....it changes the percentage results of people tested extremely....from 3-4%...to 12-20%
..total population infection is an estimate based on that
That is a percentage of the testing population and really, nobody even pays attention to it. People pay attention to the positive rate relative to the total population. Has that changed? That is important to know.
The percentage of positive tests in the population at large remains the same. From what I read, if you test positive three times in a row, it is still count it is one positive.
The percentage of those who were tested changes. But then who the hell cares about that?
The title of the thread is that the numbers were inflated. They were not.
With the hospitalizations= exceeding hospital capacity, this whole argument is just beyond silly.
no the percentage is what they screwed up so bad....
...how many people..hard number...tested positive remains the same
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