{"id":59237,"date":"2020-09-03T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/florida-severs-ties-with-quest-diagnostics-over-late-coronavirus-test-results\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:25:00","slug":"florida-severs-ties-with-quest-diagnostics-over-late-coronavirus-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/florida-severs-ties-with-quest-diagnostics-over-late-coronavirus-test-results\/","title":{"rendered":"#Florida severs ties with Quest Diagnostics over late coronavirus test results"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Florida severs ties with Quest Diagnostics over late coronavirus test results<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 2, 2020 |<\/span> 5:25pm <\/p>\n

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\n Joe Cavaretta\/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n Florida has severed ties with Quest Diagnostics \u2014 one of the biggest names in coronavirus testing \u2014 blasting the company on accusations that it dumped nearly 75,000 months-old test results into the state\u2019s monitoring system.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to Twitter<\/a> Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health said that \u201cthe law requires all COVID-19 test results to be reported to the Florida Department of Health in a timely manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo drop this much unusable and stale data is irresponsible and Quest has abdicated their ability to perform a testing function in Florida,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

Quest informed the state that all individuals who had tested positive were notified of their results, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The data issue and \u201cdoes not impact the health of individuals or the spread of COVID-19 in Florida,\u201d officials said, according to local outlet WFLA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Quest has abdicated their ability to perform a testing function in Florida that the people can be confident in,\u201d Gov. Ron DeSantis said, according to the report. \u201cAs such, I am directing all executive agencies to sever their COVID-19 testing relationships with Quest effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Quest dump skewed the state\u2019s statistics, which have recently shown a downward trend in daily confirmed coronavirus cases, according to health officials. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the state reported 7,569 new positive COVID-19 cases \u2014 but out of those, 3,870 results, from Quest, were more than two weeks old, some even from April, officials said.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, Quest said that the delayed reporting \u201cof a subset of public health COVID-19 test data\u201d resulted from a \u201ctechnical issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis subset involves nearly 75,000 of the app<\/a>roximately 1.4 million COVID-19 tests we had performed and reported to the state,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe apologize for this matter and regret the challenge it poses for public health authorities in Florida. The issue has since been resolved. Importantly, the issue did not affect or delay reporting of test results to providers and patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quest added that it \u201chas provided more COVID-19 testing on behalf of the citizens of Florida than any other laboratory\u201d and believes it is \u201cwell positioned to continue to effectively aid patient care and public health response for the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain open to working with the state Department of Health to provide testing that meets the needs required for patient care and public health response,\u201d the statement said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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