Something Shady in the Covid Tally in Florida?

In a report, “FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Hospitals confirm mistakes in Florida’s COVID-19 report,” Fox Investigators release a very alarming report of how Covid test results are being grossly over reported.

Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 found that testing sites like Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.

Fox, after investigating found :

“The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA told FOX 35 News that the positivity rate for the center is actually 6 percent.

That is one big 70% mistake.

In challenging reports that Orlando’s positivity rate, Fox investigators were told that “Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.”

FLORIDA.GOV: Today, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) reported a record-high number of test results received in one day, in addition to a third-day decline in percent positivity of new cases. On July 11, 142,981 test results were reported to the state and 11.25 percent of new cases** tested positive. 

DOH, in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. The DOH COVID-19 dashboard is also providing updates once per day. The state also provides a report detailing surveillance data for every Florida county, which is available here.

In order to make the daily COVID-19 report easier to download and more accessible, the daily report will now separate case line data in a separate PDF. Both reports will continue to be updated daily. The case line data report is available here.

Test results for more than 142,900 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Saturday, July 11. Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are:

• 15,300 new positive COVID-19 cases (15,135 Florida residents and 165 non-Florida residents)
• 45 Florida resident deaths related to COVID-19

There are a total of 266,119 positive cases in Florida residents and 3,692 positive cases in non-Florida residents. 

There are a total of 269,811 Florida cases*** with 4,242 deaths related to COVID-19.

Since July 11, the deaths of forty-five Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Dade, Duval, Hernando, Hillsborough, Holmes, Lee, Martin, Palm Beach, Polk, Seminole and St. Lucie counties.

Florida long-term care facility data:

To date, 2,100 individuals that were staff or residents of a long-term care facility have died. 

The antibody COVID-19 test results report will be provided once a week and contains county, race and lab information on antibody COVID-19 tests conducted in Florida. The report for antibody tests conducted by private health care providers is available here and the report for antibody tests conducted at state-supported COVID-19 testing sites is available here. 

Total Cases Overview	269,811
Traveled	2,875
Contact with confirmed case	73,889
Travel & contact with confirmed case	2,791
Under Investigation	186,564

For more detail on Florida resident cases, please visit the live DOH Dashboard here.