Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported

[jazz]

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/florida-lab-admits-its-covid-positivity-rate-was-inflated-90 Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported

Just like the rest of the nation.

If case rate is overstated by 10x, then so is death rate.

[tweety]

The total number of positive tests though is still the same and correct. Its the only number that actually matters.

[sumdumguy]

How can one believe anything nowadays? The corruption and manipulation of statistics is accepted practice.

[malleefarmer]

Hey jazz read this https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-07-15/superspreader-events-people-places/12457542 https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-07-15/superspreader-events-people-places/12457542

Ain’t it amazing marches protests riots are not mentioned

This is left leaning news service

[SASKFARMER]

One should check if the hospital that's a private hospital gets funding for COVID from the feds. its a business so why not make it look way worse to get cash from gov.

Wake up our community of 849 still has zero cases. Yes were behind a gate but the average age is 76.

Come on who actually knows one person who has caught it.

[the big wheel]

One should check if the hospital that's a private hospital gets funding for COVID from the feds. its a business so why not make it look way worse to get cash from gov.

Wake up our community of 849 still has zero cases. Yes were behind a gate but the average age is 76.

Come on who actually knows one person who has caught it.

Chuck Norris!!!! If he couldn’t survive we’re all finished!!

How many tests are being done here? How many people have died that weren’t tested? Oh it’s a heart attack was it?

Listened to the radio 3 or 4 days ago the Prince Albert station was saying how there were so many cases and authorities are frustrated because they can’t trace where it came from. Then the next day the health authority doesn’t even mention Prince Albert?

Then yesterday the main guy admits hey there’s more cases because we re testing more in an area where we found some???
Well duuuuuh!! How many died then that you never tested?

IMO governments are making this look the way they want it to look.
But when the shit gets real
Bad even the deniers put on a mask. Which I still can’t believe we aren’t mandated to do within businesses or gatherings indoors.

Are the Florida, Texas etc hospitals and morgues just filled up for fun?

[farming101]

When people are dying that shouldn't be dying it's best to pay attention

[Simpleton]

Chuck Norris!!!! If he couldn’t survive we’re all finished!!

How many tests are being done here? How many people have died that weren’t tested? Oh it’s a heart attack was it?

Listened to the radio 3 or 4 days ago the Prince Albert station was saying how there were so many cases and authorities are frustrated because they can’t trace where it came from. Then the next day the health authority doesn’t even mention Prince Albert?

Then yesterday the main guy admits hey there’s more cases because we re testing more in an area where we found some???
Well duuuuuh!! How many died then that you never tested?

IMO governments are making this look the way they want it to look.
But when the shit gets real
Bad even the deniers put on a mask. Which I still can’t believe we aren’t mandated to do within businesses or gatherings indoors.

Are the Florida, Texas etc hospitals and morgues just filled up for fun?

**** your an idiot. Prime example of why the death statistics are high. Heart attack.....? probably covid

[dmlfarmer]

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/florida-lab-admits-its-covid-positivity-rate-was-inflated-90 Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported

Just like the rest of the nation.

If case rate is overstated by 10x, then so is death rate.

Questions for Jazz:

1. If your lab has only run one Covid test and it comes back positive, what is the positivity rate?
2. Is it possible that there are small Florida facilities that only have one patient tested for Covid (Before you answer you should note that the article you linked to states: "Many of those labs claim to have tested only one patient."
3. Are the labs that are showing high positivity rates doing random testing of the general population or are they just testing people showing symptoms?
4. Do you actually believe a small hospital is doing random testing or could it be they are testing patients they have admitted, in which case you would expect much higher positivity rates?
5. What is the reliability of the tests being used? Are there false positives/negatives too?
6. Is the number of cases admitted to hospital and the seriousness of the patient not a better measure of Covid than positivity testing?
7. Do you believe if there was less testing there would be less Covid as Trump claims? So if all testing stopped would there be no disease? And does this work for other diseases like cancer?
8. Could this issue also be the result of the US for profit health system whereby it is expensive to get a test if not sick and it is to the advantage of hospitals to have high rates of positivity to attract funding?
9. But if testing is just left wing media fake news, do you agree with OAN and Channel Rion that Covid was actually developed in a North Carolina lab by Fauci and company and spread to China in order to destroy the US economy by the deep state as was reported in the OAN Corona virus special on the weekend? https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created?fbclid=IwAR037R13y_zhdcbRMA8yUNDsDiZqgf5Um 21lqqx8yOzYTZMVUxsDdWz63aI https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/pro-trump-oan-pushes-wild-conspiracy-theory-novel-coronavirus-was-created?fbclid=IwAR037R13y_zhdcbRMA8yUNDsDiZqgf5Um 21lqqx8yOzYTZMVUxsDdWz63aI
Questions a thinking person would ask before sharing/posting conspiracy theories.

[ajl]

It has been widely known for some time that the Florida figures were highly inflated because Florida is a swing state. The trouble is that nobody knows what the real numbers are and that is scary. I actually know someone who's grandmother was hospitalized for covid so don't go down the denier road. She survived vivid but got a secondary infection in hospital. As far as I know she is still alive and well.

[GDR]

One should check if the hospital that's a private hospital gets funding for COVID from the feds. its a business so why not make it look way worse to get cash from gov.

Wake up our community of 849 still has zero cases. Yes were behind a gate but the average age is 76.

Come on who actually knows one person who has caught it.

Yesterdays AB report said 57% of positives now under the age of 40.

[the big wheel]

**** your an idiot. Prime example of why the death statistics are high. Heart attack.....? probably covid

If you don’t have covid rhe heart attack wouldn’t happen. Do I have to simplify it more like grade 2 level? Or maybe stop drinking rhe Lysol it’s affecting your thought process. Lmao!!! This thing is way more complicated than the deniers want to admit.

A better question is how many people are being tested? I know a few but each one had to beg to be tested?????

They better be testing people that die from heart attacks to see just how many are being brought on by the covid. That’s the only way they’re going to figure this out. Get the facts.

[dmlfarmer]

One should check if the hospital that's a private hospital gets funding for COVID from the feds. its a business so why not make it look way worse to get cash from gov.

Wake up our community of 849 still has zero cases. Yes were behind a gate but the average age is 76.

Come on who actually knows one person who has caught it.

If you want to get close up and personal with someone who has Covid, maybe you should visit the Hutterite colonies around Maple Creek.

[blackpowder]

If you want to get close up and personal with someone who has Covid, maybe you should visit the Hutterite colonies around Maple Creek.

Or up around here.

[furrowtickler]

If you want to get close up and personal with someone who has Covid, maybe you should visit the Hutterite colonies around Maple Creek.

Yup
Or go the reserves up north