Rachel just stated Iowa now has a 79% positivity testing for coronavirus

[rurallib]

in other words we are fucked

[RockRaven]

1. If your positivity rate is that high, you aren't even trying.

[rurallib]

2. Our governor, CovidKim Reynolds is doing all she can to kill us. Oh, she is a Republican.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Can you believe that!? I have teachers in the family who are getting more and more disgusted.

She (Reynolds) keeps changing the rules and what their plans were a couple weeks ago...and, what they were set up for...are no longer valid. They will now have to work over the weekend to change set-ups/plans.

I hope she gets over her love affair with Trump very soon. Save us, someone!

[Squinch]

4. Which means those giant numbers weren't some counting correction.

[Phoenix61]

5. Sounds like they are only testing those in hospital

or symptomatic. What an idiot.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I noticed it 3 hours ago when I did my daily Worldometers check.

My eyes popped out of their sockets when I saw the number of new cases and then checked out the bar graphs. Wow!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/iowa/

[IADEMO2004]

7. Changed reporting what tests are included. edit add Cedar Rapids Gazette link

Last edited Fri Aug 28, 2020, 10:12 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/08/28/covid-19-iowa-2-663-coronavirus-cases-12-deaths-reported/5654887002/


State officials had been counting positive antigen tests as "inconclusive," because the rapid tests aren't quite as accurate as more common PCR tests, which usually take longer to yield results. But federal experts say positive antigen tests for the coronavirus are almost always correct, and the state shifted its position on Thursday.

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/health/iowa-coronavirus-cases-covid-19-positivity-rate-antigen-results-20200828

Iowa on Friday reported that more than three-quarters of the coronavirus tests performed in the past 24 hours had come back positive.

The positivity rate jumped to a record 79.43 percent — with 2,579 new COVID-19 cases confirmed out of 3,247 tests.

But Pat Garrett, spokesman for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, said Friday evening that the abrupt increase is a one-time event, reflecting the addition of antigen tests to state numbers.

The results of about 10,000 antigen tests, previously marked as “inconclusive,” were updated as positive or negative — thereby boosting the number of cases and the positivity rate.

[IADEMO2004]

9. Iowa's repubican government looks like duck shit smells like duck shit and is duck shit.

[Farmgirl1961]

8. Really?!?!?! OMFG

How is that even possible? Does she provide a reliable source??? That’s unbelievably frightening!!!!

[SharonClark]

10. Leaders in Iowa's biggest cities and counties say they don't trust the state's coronavirus numbers

Lee Rood, Des Moines Register
As Iowa's positive coronavirus cases climbed this week to their highest level yet, local elected officials in several of the state's most populated counties said they are increasingly relying on data sources other than the state health department to make decisions about protecting residents in their communities.

In places such as Polk, Story, Johnson and Linn counties, several officials complained they no longer trust state data or metrics because case numbers have been consistently under-reported and contain inaccuracies — and that Gov. Kim Reynolds' guidance thus far has failed to quell the coronavirus’ spread.

“Iowa has become an island to ourselves,” said Linn County supervisors Chairman Ben Rogers, a four-term elected official from the northeast side of Cedar Rapids. “We find ourselves at the top of all the bad lists. ... It’s not slowing down.”

On Friday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported 2,663 new coronavirus cases, the most yet in a 24-hour period, as for the first time it included positive results from rapid antigen tests. . . .

Rogers said Linn County has been doing its own data analysis, conducting its own contact tracing, collecting case counts from area colleges and providing residents with case count information by ZIP code, which the state does not do. . . .

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/08/28/covid-19-iowa-top-county-city-leaders-distrust-state-numbers/5646260002/

[rurallib]

11. Thanks for all the responses. That really helps make sense of it all

I was scared to the quick when I heard that.

My gawd Reynolds is incompetent - and that Pendati should have been fired long ago.