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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 07 2020, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the data-entry-personnel-needed dept.

California virus-fighting efforts hampered by data delays:

California has stopped removing or adding to a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools as it tries to resolve a technical problem with the state's coronavirus testing database, health officials said Wednesday.

The state has recorded a highest-in-the-nation 525,000 positive tests. But California health officials say the true number is even higher. They don't know how much so until they can add backlogged testing data and fix the problem with the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, also known as CalREDIE.

The incomplete data in the nation's most populous state has hampered public health officials' ability to follow up with those who test positive and contact people who have been around them to limit the spread.

"Back in February and March when we didn't have enough testing, I would say we felt blind," said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County's public health director. "I would say now we're back to feeling blind. We don't know how the epidemic is trending."


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @10:28PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @10:28PM (#1033214)

    Since you didn't spell it out, people can be asymptomatic carriers or not develop serious enough symptoms to go to the hospital so "fall ill" won't catch the majority of COVID spreaders.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 07 2020, @10:38PM (3 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday August 07 2020, @10:38PM (#1033225) Journal

    OK to spell it out myself, what if hypothetically speaking nothing happens "days to weeks" from now like it happen in the south of Italy?

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 08 2020, @12:19AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 08 2020, @12:19AM (#1033259) Journal

      what if hypothetically speaking nothing happens "days to weeks" from now like it happen in the south of Italy?

      Then everything is fine.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @02:56AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @02:56AM (#1033295)

      You got lucky and there were no significant number of infected people around.

      The fuck is wrong with you?

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:16PM

        by Bot (3902) on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:16PM (#1034017) Journal

        You are not aware of the details, allow me.
        In Lombardy, a wild deadly covid appears.
        The government/governor/whatever decides to lock down the place BUT FIRST they leak the news.
        Therefore all southerners escape, filling out trains cars and buses.
        There is simply no way they were all covid clean, so they did take the lombardy strain south.
        Apparently covid absorbs the culture of the place because from a stakanovist killer it became a sloth in a matter of one day.

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