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States accused of fudging or bungling COVID-19 testing data
By MICHELLE R. SMITH, COLLEEN LONG and JEFF AMY
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As large parts of the U.S. ease
their lockdowns against the coronavirus, public health of-
ficials in some states are being accused of bungling in-
fection statistics or even deliberately using a little sleight
of hand to make things look better than they are.
The result is that politicians, business owners and ordinary
Americans who are making decisions about reopenings
and other day-to-day matters risk being left with the im-
pression that the virus is under more control than it actu-
ally is.
In Virginia, Texas and Vermont, for example, officials said
they have been combining the results of viral tests, which
show an active infection, with antibody tests, which show
a past infection. Public health experts say that can make
for impressive-looking testing totals but does not give a
true picture of how the virus is spreading.
In Florida, the data scientist who developed the state’s A worker instructs people on how to collect their own nasopharyngeal swab samples to test for
coronavirus dashboard, Rebekah Jones, said this week the coronavirus at a drive-thru testing site organized by the nonprofit organization Community
that she was fired for refusing to manipulate data “to Organized Relief Effort (CORE) at Dr. Jorge Prieto Math and Science Academy in Chicago on
drum up support for the plan to reopen.” Monday, May 18, 2020.
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