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Los Angeles Coronavirus Report: Mayor Eric Garcetti Contradicts State Officials, Says Underreporting Cases Has Probably Gone On For Months, Not Weeks - Deadline

Los Angeles Coronavirus Report: Mayor Eric Garcetti Contradicts State Officials, Says Underreporting Cases Has Probably Gone On For Months, Not Weeks - Deadline

Los Angeles Coronavirus Report: Mayor Eric Garcetti Contradicts State Officials, Says Underreporting Cases Has Probably Gone On For Months, Not Weeks - Deadline
Aug 06, 2020 1 min, 39 secs

The state’s top health official said on Tuesday that local officials had seen a drop in case numbers “over the past few days.”.

County public health officials said on Tuesday that they have flagged irregularities to the state for the past 2 weeks and are now pursuing “an independent strategy to obtain accurate data.”.

On Tuesday, a message was posted on the California state COVID-19 dashboard read, “Due to the issues with the state’s electronic laboratory system, these data represent an underreporting of actual positive cases in one single day.” There was no further information or clarification.

“Over the past few days — the state system — we’ve discovered some discrepancies,” said Ghaly.

“Many public health officials and public health offices that depend on the state’s data over the past few days have seen a drop in case numbers.

There is no doubt that, their ability to address in a specific way contact tracing and case investigation” has been impacted over the past few days.

The data glitch reportedly only impacts new case numbers, not those for deaths or hospitalizations.

On Tuesday, the case numbers fell even further.

Those numbers will likely rise however, said local officials, when the state’s technical glitch is cleared up.

While Newsom gave an update on the state’s battle with the virus on Monday, on Tuesday his director of public health, Dr!

In the past two days, Newsom’s frequently-updated Twitter account has posts about the census, Proposition 8, the NRA and one pinned tweet about wearing a mask, but there is no mention of the data glitch

One wonders if the state’s actions might have been different over the past few days and if the current spike in deaths — themselves a lagging indicator — might have been flattened if state and local officials had had the accurate, higher case data and been able to act on that earlier

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