FOX 35 Investigates: Hospitals confirm
mistakes in Florida’s COVID-19 report
Fox 35 [Orlando],
by
Robert Guaderrama
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/14/2020 1:02:32 PM
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health released its daily coronavirus testing report showing a statewide positivity rate of 11 percent, but FOX 35 News investigated and quickly noticed some shocking positivity rates.
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.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/14/2020 1:04:55 PM (No. 478081)
Figures don't lie but liars can figure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/14/2020 1:19:00 PM (No. 478089)
If the truth ever actually comes out, we’ll find that the real numbers of infections and deaths was minuscule, maybe 3% of what has been reported.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 7/14/2020 1:19:12 PM (No. 478091)
Oh it's no "mistake". We are being played on an unprecedented scale.
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Every activity's reporting of positives is inflated by an order of magnitude. Imagine that.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cThree 7/14/2020 1:21:19 PM (No. 478093)
The report uncovers some shocking disparities. For example,
. . . Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
But unfortunately, the report offers no explanation for the discrepancy. The phenomenon seems widespread, meanwhile, so it's less likely (not impossible) that rogue employees are tinkering with the numbers.
I look forward to a follow-up.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/14/2020 1:27:57 PM (No. 478097)
This story was on the nationwide Fox News website. About ten minutes ago, it disappeared.
This is ALL BeeeEsss. We’ve been had.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/14/2020 1:28:30 PM (No. 478098)
I don't know who gets paid what for testing or other treatment but Medicare Part A pays $13,000 for covid patients v. $5,000 for mere pneumonia.
There appears to be monetary incentives for diagnosing a patient as covid positive. We will never know how much fraud is occuring.
Our gov't at work
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 7/14/2020 1:28:58 PM (No. 478100)
Profit Motive, writ large. Imagine if an exterminator discovered he could sell each rat as a mink.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/14/2020 1:30:04 PM (No. 478103)
In other news - -10,141,317 extreme leftists were tested for Trump Derangement Syndrome - - and the results came back 641.8% positive.
Now those are numbers I can believe!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 7/14/2020 1:33:22 PM (No. 478108)
OK - I realize this is hearsay from an online comment, so take the following with a big grain of salt.
A few weeks ago when widespread testing was just getting started I read a comment from someone that she and her sister had gone in to be tested. They had filled out the paperwork but it was taking so long that they left before getting the test. A few days later they both received the test results back and both were positive - without having actually taking the test!
This comment stayed with me because it seemed so odd at the time. Again - a hearsay story from someone who is anonymous but now I really wonder ....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/14/2020 1:33:40 PM (No. 478109)
If they keep counting The Gorbot will win the election.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/14/2020 1:37:56 PM (No. 478114)
I though these numbers were all wrong. I live in Central FL in a Retirement community of 130,000 people. We haven't heard of anyone with the Virus. If there is someone, it hasn't made the News. I think these numbers were not wrong by accident. Someone is trying to take down Gov. DeSantis because he opened up May 1st and because he's big Trump supporter! The Democrats are determined to get this country to shutdown again. DeSantis isn't having any part of it! So, they put these horrid numbers out to scare people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/14/2020 2:17:43 PM (No. 478149)
"By any means necessary" - they told us they were willing to do literally ANYTHING.
Reports changed to 10 times the percentage positive.
And how many of the "deaths" are from some other cause, but just blamed on the virus? More massive fraud there, too, I have no doubt.
It's all about "get Trump" - BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 7/14/2020 2:40:14 PM (No. 478170)
A sky diver was killed by covid in Sarasota when his parachute failed to open....I read it in the lame stream media...it was Trumps fault because he didn't pack the chute correctly...bah on them..liars all...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/14/2020 2:46:45 PM (No. 478173)
Just like the news reporters continue to report the total number since the first cases, and not subtracting the numbers of recovered. As if no one has recovered, and most recover within a couple weeks.
It's all bad data, which looks more and more like it's on purpose.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/14/2020 3:03:48 PM (No. 478197)
It's not who 'counts' but who counts the counts.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 7/14/2020 3:04:22 PM (No. 478198)
Fake news isn’t just the usual suspects..
ALL lefties lie!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
granny5 7/14/2020 4:08:52 PM (No. 478280)
You don't even have to be tested to test positive. A friend of a friend had an appointment to be tested, but for whatever reason was unable to make her appointment. A week later, she received a letter in the mail, advising that her test came back positive.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snapper451 7/14/2020 4:47:00 PM (No. 478301)
I believe there is a revolt within the Department of Health in FL since Governor DeSantis fired an ingrate who was fighting everything. We know of two locals (Pinellas County / Clearwater) who went to get tested, registered, but due to the wait left and never were tested. They were called the next week that they tested positive and we told to quarantine. This is criminal and should be addressed. Likely on their permanent record that they tested positive for Covid 19.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
geminale 7/14/2020 5:06:19 PM (No. 478314)
Would absolutely not surprise me if hospitals and/or staff were being paid to fudge or inflate positivity rates and claim "mistakes" when caught. The Dems are out to destroy the President and any public official who is pro-Trump. Desantis has been providing leadership that is keeping the death rate down.
The numbers are easily manipulated to promote fear and fear is the currency of the mainstream media. Yesterday Florida COVID deaths were 10 and have been dropping for the last few days, today 132 were reported, but these are deaths over a period of time and don't reflect a rise in the daily death rate. Placed in context, the 132 number is not cataclysmic, but it's being spinned to appear so. It's infuriating and needs to be called out.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 7/14/2020 5:49:08 PM (No. 478350)
Reporting results that are TEN TIMES the actual values is not "a mistake".
Old saying in the military:
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
This is enemy action.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
starboard 7/14/2020 6:03:32 PM (No. 478371)
I've been saying the the testing is flawed for the past couple of weeks. These numbers are now specific for Covid 19. Therefore I'm thrilled to hear with that the results are proving to be false. Pretty close. Although, there's a manipulation element with the false numbers. Which brings me to the conclusion theat the Dems are behind this caper.
Governor De Santis is hated in Florida by the Left. I have a friend in Melbourne who can't help bold back her bile about him and I have all I can do to not react to her, especially since I'm a big supporter of DeSantis. I'd be happy to trade him to her for the Governor we have in New Mexico.She's a turning out to be Governor Whitmer lite.
A few months back the Florida Leftists were screaming that there were no tests in the state. Now I know why they wanted these tests...to be able to control the outcome. To stall the reopening and keep the virus going up to November 3rd. They don't care about people getting Covid -19. Their virtuousness is as phony as their Covid-19 test.
Reopen the schools, reopen the state gradually, and test people who only have symptoms for the virus.
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Very, very strange. How nice to see a news organization actually doing some investigation. Refreshing!