Propaganda Debunking
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Ok folks. This news is starting to go viral. Just saw it posted by louder with Crowder and Breitbart has been reporting it, too.
A local Fox35 reporter finally dug into the FL DoH PDF and saw some oddities in lab results. Several hundred labs (mostly reporting single digit results) had 100% positivity
They contacted a couple of the larger labs (still just a few hundred results total...keep in mind the largest lab used in the state has returned 58,000 positive results) and found positive % were much lower (9.4% and 6%, respectively)
What was going on? Simple
Were talking like 0.2% of ALL 3.3 Million tests performed since March. Some small labs (all less than ~500 positive results reported, vast majority in single digits) were not submitting negative results to the state
This does NOT affect the # of cases and will barely affect the overall % positive from March til now. So, keep this in mind when conspiracy theory-minded partisans try to use this as some sort of proof that FL is not experiencing a massive surge in new cases (we are)
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-florida-department-of-health-says-some-labs-have-not-reported-negative-covid-19-results
FWIW, I dug in some, myself. I wanted to weed out realllly small labs that were likely used in the beginning when one had to be symptomatic to get a test, which would result in that lab having really high positive rates
So this image is all labs with >75% positive rates but >50 positive tests
Amounts to 7,608. Note weve had 3.3 Million tests overall since March so this % is minuscule and not gonna affect anything really
Link to tweet
FM123
(10,120 posts)Forewarned is forearmed.
Phoenix61
(17,559 posts)The thing is, if Fox 35 thought the numbers would change the percent positive it would have published that. Since it didnt I knew it was meaningless bs.
Roland99
(53,345 posts)before really digging in
Phoenix61
(17,559 posts)Find a little something thats really nothing but blow it up to be a big something as long as they can.
Roland99
(53,345 posts)The reporter was on multiple FNC shows
Twitler retweeted a John Solomon tweet about it. Chuck woolery got into the act