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Originally Posted by GoodLife
The percent of positive covid 19 tests for florida has been over 10% for last two weeks with a high 18% on July 8 and a low of 11% yesterday, July 11.
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There is no doubt we have a lot of new cases here. However, the percent positive rate is an important barometer to judge the trends.
In the last few days people who scour the Florida coronavirus websites have noticed something peculiar.
Yesterday, July 11, 333 Florida labs reported 100% positivity on all their tests, which amounts to 3528 positives reported to the state with zero negatives. Another 31 labs reported 90-99% positive tests for a total of 1767 positives and very few negatives. Thats about 50% of all positives for the day. These results are not plausible when you have a statewide average of 10-15% positivity. These results skew the positive rate upward by several percentage points. Something is wrong with their reporting system if so many labs are not reporting their negative test results.
Hopefully some sharp reporters will get on this and try to find out what is happening.
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So my son lives in Riverview, Fl., just outside of Tampa. Last week a TV News show reported the experiences of local hospital nurses. They too had noticed all of the swabs they sent to the labs were coming back positive. They had always had a large percentage of negatives. So they decided to do an experiment. They took two fresh swabs, never used. They made up fictitious patient names and sent them to their lab. They BOTH came back positive. How in the world can that happen? Is this politically motivated? Or is it a reflection of incompetence at the labs. Or is it driven by a crooked money grab by the hospital administrators. I don’t know but I do know not to trust the numbers we hear and read.
Also, we all know there are false positives. Are the false positives taken out of the infection numbers? I would guess not. How about the non-symptomatic positives? Are they subtracted? And if not, what is the percentage of non-symptomatic and false positive results?
I don’t believe a thing I read or hear anymore.