Nurses found a “horror” error, and the epidemic data in this state of the United States are out of order

A US nurse who has long recorded the data of the new coronal epidemic has found that Iowa has made a serious mistake in the statistics of confirmed cases, including recent new confirmed cases in the data of previous months. This means that the number of confirmed cases recently reported by the state is lower than the actual number. According to the associated press on August 17, Dana Jones, a nurse in Iowa City, Iowa, said on the same day that thousands of new crown confirmed cases in Iowa in recent weeks were wrongly recorded as occurring between March and June this year. According to the report, Jones has been tracking the epidemic data released by the state government of Iowa. What puzzles her is that in recent weeks, the number of confirmed cases in Iowa in March and April has increased without explanation. after combing through the numbers, she found that thousands of confirmed cases may have been attributed to the wrong date, “it’s so terrible, we really don’t know what happened.”. a table obtained by the local Iowa media “bleeding heartland” shows some of the data Jones recorded. Take March 20 as an example, the number of confirmed cases she recorded on May 27 was 27, and on August 14, it became 32 cases. On May 20, the number of confirmed cases recorded on May 27 was 354, but on August 14, it became 433. Since late May, Iowa has been testing more than 5000 people a day, so more and more new cases have been added to the confirmed numbers a few months ago. Jones informed the Iowa Department of public health (idph) of her findings, and on August 14, rob ramaekers, the Department’s chief epidemiologist, replied in an email admitting to the mistake. According to lamars, the date of the first report to the State Department of public health will not change. “For example, if my test result is negative in March and I report it to the State Department of public health, my ‘report date to the State Department of public health’ is March. If I test positive again today, my “report date to the State Department of public health” will not change. ” Iowa has not publicly announced the mistake as of August 17 local time, the associated press said. Amy McCoy, a spokesman for the state’s public health department, said in response to a query that she would like more information on the issue as soon as possible. According to data from Johns Hopkins University on the 17th, there are more than 52600 new crown confirmed cases in Iowa since March. Although this error does not change the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Iowa, it does mean that the actual epidemic situation in Iowa is more serious than the government’s public figures. It is worth noting that schools across Iowa are deciding whether to reopen Classrooms Based on the state government’s 14 day positive rate. At least 15% of the state’s governor, Reynolds, had ordered schools to be open to students as long as they were face-to-face. According to the associated press, the positive rate of 15% is 3-5 times higher than the standard recommended by public health experts. on the one hand, there are chaotic new crown diagnosis figures, and on the other hand, the governor is rushing to resume school. Mike Beranek, President of the Iowa State Education Association, called on school districts to suspend the decision to reopen schools until the epidemic data are completely corrected. According to Eli perencevich, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Iowa, the state’s goal of reopening schools is high from the start, and wrong epidemic data can make the situation worse, and the number of cases in Iowa has been “artificially reduced.”. “a lot of little things like this add up to big things, and we seriously underestimate the state of Iowa,” perensevic said. “Both of these things (referring to erroneous data and suspension of classes) should be announced, corrected and clarified immediately.”