Florida faced a COVID-19 data mess on Tuesday and severed ties with national lab giant Quest Diagnostics, slamming the company for a previously unreported backlog of 75,000 test results from as early as April.
“To drop this much unusable and stale data is irresponsible and Quest has abdicated their ability to perform a testing function in Florida,” the state Department of Health wrote on Twitter.
Coming after recent weeks of declining COVID-19 cases and deaths, the data dump produced higher numbers that officials declared had “historical significance” but “little impact on the status of the pandemic today.”
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