Yikes: California County’s Coronavirus Numbers Were Inflated. Caught with their fingers in the cookie jar helping Gavin justify continued lockdown? Or just a stupid mistake? In California, we always go with the nefarious side of things.
During the peak of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in April and May, Orange County, California health care officials reported inaccurate numbers. For more than five weeks, the county incorrectly included 30,000 serology tests – used to detect whether or not a person has antibodies for the virus, suggesting they previously had an infection – into their “cumulative tests to date” figures, the Los Angeles Times reported. The mistake inflated both the county’s testing numbers and the number of positive Wuhan coronavirus cases.
