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Florida’s COVID-19 Cases Spike Due to 7-week Backlog in Reported Tests

Florida’s COVID-19 Cases Spike Due to 7-week Backlog in Reported Tests
Emergency medical technicians leave with a patient at North Shore Medical Center, where COVID-19 patients are treated, in Miami, Fla., on July 14, 2020. Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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Florida health officials on Wednesday confirmed 8,183 new COVID-19 infections, but over 4,000 of those were due to a seven-week backlog of cases released by a lab in a single day, severely distorting the daily case count data.

The backlog of testing data came from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami, dating back to June 23, the state health department said in an Aug. 12 release, which reported Aug. 11 and earlier COVID-19 data.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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