At his coronavirus press conference on Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom said the much talked-about backlog of daily cases would roll in over the next 72 hours, “most likely” …
But just 24 hours after that news conference, California’s COVID-19 dashboard indicated on Thursday that the state had 7,085 new cases. That’s a lot less than the 11,645 reported on Wednesday. In fact, it looked a lot more like the 7,751 new cases reported on Monday, before the backlog numbers began showing.
On Thursday, the disclaimer had been changed to: “Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.” But is seems hard to believe that the positive test results contained in the 250,000-300,000 reporting backlog would only amount to 6,000-some infections. That’s especially true given the fact that the state’s 14-day test positivity rate sits at about 6 percent. With a count of 250,000 test results, that positivity rate would yield 15,000 positives.
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