Well, isn't this interesting.
Senator Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) has been pursuing the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to publicly acknowledge there has been a significant backlog in local public health departments entering thousands of negative Covid-19 test results. Earlier this week, Dane County admitted they had not entered all of their negative results since July 10th and was running about a two week backlog in processing negative results. Dane County is Wisconsin’s second largest county and has seen a huge increase in people seeking testing since mid-June.
“DHS and local public health departments have been aware of the backlog in counting negative test results and have not been transparent with the public about the situation. By rapidly including the positive test results but delaying thousands of negative test results from being included in the data released to the public, it provides a seriously incomplete picture of Covid-19 in Wisconsin,” Nass said.
Dane County failed to enter seventeen thousand negative results--until this press release came out and it was suddenly fixed today.
What's the story in Milwaukee County? Waukesha County? Racine County???
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