Advances Covid this state hardest hit may be inaccurate, say officials
This state is seriously under-declaring its new daily cases, officials of the local health admit.
End of July,California has progressed ahead of New YorkThe state had previously counted the most coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. For data collected byThe New York Times,California Number of cases recorded accounted Covid has now topped 527,000 people. But with the governmentGavin NewsomRoll the rolling back and issue aState mask MandateIt seemed that California has been a tendency in the right direction.The temperatureReports that the new cases daily average fell 18% over the past two weeks. Unfortunately, the leaders of the state of health recently acknowledged that this progress may not be as important in reality than on paper. Due to technical problems,California is probably under-reported his case Covid.
As indicated byThe Sacramento BeeThe Ministry of Public Health Public Health of California has set up a warning on its Live update.Dashboard data Covid which reads: "Due to problems with the electronic laboratory reporting system of the State, these data represent aunderreporting of actual positives In a single day. "The publication notes that it is unclear how many total uniforms are affected or how far the system accounts can be.
In a virtual update Covid on August 4, Secretary of Health and Human Services CaliforniaMark GhalyMD, recognized"Some differences" in the system, Called Calredi, and said the reporting problems were being processed. However, ABC 7, he also warned: "We're not sure when we have a final solution."
Ghaly blamed the delay on technical shift the amount of data of data - California testing and positive cases - that Calredie daily deals. Health officials in some counties in the state have claimed that the figures in their fields are under-reported by hundreds of dollars because of this problem. Epidemiologist Riverside CountyWendy Hetherington, MPH, told ABC 7, "We can not say how well we do that this matter is resolved." The same director of health of the county,Kim Saruwatari, MPH, saysThe Sacramento Beeit expects to see cases of total daily significantly higher in the near future the system rises to himself.
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Inaccurate numbers give not only an unclear picture of the progress of California, they also severely limit the ability of pandemic response of the state of the team to draw positive business and limit further spread.
However, there are more concrete concrete evidence thatCalifornia made gains against coronavirus. In the Virtual update, Ghaly said hospitalizations decreased by 11% over the last two weeks and that the admission of the ICU also fell.
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