COVID-19 Testing Data in Florida Inaccurate, Hospitals Say

Healthcare workers test patients at the COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at the Duke Energy for the Arts Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Fla., on July 8, 2020. Octavio Jones/Getty Images

Sky-high positivity rates listed by the Florida Department of Health in its daily CCP virus report are wrong, hospitals told The Epoch Times.

“It looks like there is an error in the data report. Lee Health has not experienced 100% positivity in our lab testing,” Pat Dolce, a spokeswoman for Lee Health, said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.