Skewing the Numbers

The state of Louisiana admits that it is skewing the numbers on the total case count of covid-positive tests.

During a live, digital Town Hall today, Governor Edwards announced the numbers, and immediately informed those watching that the data had been skewed. Of the 827 "new" cases added to the LDH total, 609 are coming from a lab who had a backlog of old results. Those old results date all the way back to March.

Someone's head needs to roll.  If we can't trust the numbers that the state is giving us, then we have no reason to believe anything they are telling us.  There are those of us who are watching those numbers and expecting them to be accurate over time. Labs are supposed to report daily, and f they are not reporting daily, accurate numbers, then perhaps that lab should be de-certified.