re: Hospitals confirm mistakes in Florida’s COVID-19 report

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Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lowe. I've always been a fan of your talents on the dobro.

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Thank ya, thank ya, unfortunately I drink too much wine.

I'm not sure what you think the logistics of reporting tests and results are, but that doesn't really make sense in a digital world. Depending on their systems, it might even be more cumbersome to only send positive results to the state. If that's what they are doing, it's not to save time.

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In theory yes, but a lab that is swamped in tests to process will devote more resources to getting the work done and reporting positives immediately, as is required and/or mandated by the states. The negative test results will get reported - they are just not the priority.

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Most of these places have only run a handful of tests. Those in particular are not swamped.

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It is becoming more and more apparent that the total case count is bull shite and anyone who makes any decision on a case count or cries about it is a fricking retard or just looking to score political points.

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Or that these noon data dumps you and I see aren’t worth our time while the stats and health experts making decisions are likely looking at much richer data points then the OT daily grid updates.

The news of course not eager to point out there daily updates that we all rush to click are of relatively limited value

Do you get more federal dollars when you have a positive case to deal with?

An acquaintance of mine has COVID-19 and works for the state. Basically the federal government gives the state two-weeks pay so they just told her to stay home for two weeks and then come back in whether she's still got it or not. Its unclear if it'll be remote work but the emphasis was clearly on maximizing federal funds.

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Honest question, why do they have to prioritize reporting? They don’t have to report who tested positive to the state do they?

I just don’t get why they can’t submit raw totals of positive and negative at the end of the day. Why do negative tests lag?

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What I know:

The states are prioritizing positive result reporting to quarantine and try to mitigate the spread of covid.

Yes, both labs and hospitals report to the state electronically.


There are lags from sample collection to processing to reporting on cases. The states report on Monday data received for Sunday, and so on....

Labs report once tests are processed and input. Collection dates on said tests will cover a range of days. Been tracking GA's daily reporting that is being backfilled to date of symptom onset (if no symptoms to a heirarchy of criteria including date of collection). While some of the cases reported in a given day will date back further than 14 days over 90% fall within the 14 day range with a majority in the last week. The date of reporting will be low numbers for that day, a small increase to the numbers of the previous day and then substantial increases for the next several days up to day 14.

Death reporting lags at a minimum 2 to 3 days from date of death. Autopsy and death certificates, yada yada yada.


What I think I know:

The big lab corps are getting tests in droves from all over the country for processing. Early on LA tests were lagging because processing of a large batch of tests were being processed by Quest Diagnostics in California.

I would imagine that the logistics are a nightmare and with all states wanting immediate info on positive results same are prioritized for data entry for reporting purposes.