Uh Oh today's body count for my home county

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Testing, yes, it takes time

but deaths are reported in the same day from what I understand. if there is a two week delay in reporting deaths, then I didn't see that anywhere.

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space-time wrote:
Testing, yes, it takes time

but deaths are reported in the same day from what I understand. if there is a two week delay in reporting deaths, then I didn't see that anywhere.

Well, now you have.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nid...-hospitals

“From the beginning when it was easier to track, we'd had confirmed cases in our ER and on my unit all while the news and dot gov websites continued to claim our county and affiliated hospital counties were still at zero cases,” another nurse at a large teaching hospital in New Jersey told BuzzFeed News.

“I have still not seen any reports on COVID patients of ours who died this week,” the nurse said.

“It is beyond my capacity to constantly monitor this and I am not sure why things aren't being reported as we have rigorous documentation and reporting procedures in place for the CDC,” the nurse added, referring to the COVID-19 reporting form released by the CDC for health departments to report cases.

Robert Jensen, CEO of Kenyon International, a private company that specializes in disaster response where there’s a significant death count, said that it’s not surprising that the official numbers have not caught up to what medical professionals are seeing on the front lines.

“Right now, everyone is just doing it ad hoc. I don't think the documents have even caught up because I think those things take weeks, and I don’t think they’ll catch up for some time,” he said.

And...

https://www.al.com/news/2020/04/why-does...abama.html

“It takes a little bit of time in public health for us to confirm exactly why a death occurred and we want to be accurate and make sure that we understand exactly what has occurred,” he said. “So sometimes those reports come out a little more slowly than we would like.”...

Deciding whether a death was caused by coronavirus can take several days even when doctors know the patient has tested positive for COVID-19. If a patient dies without getting tested but has symptoms common in COVID-19 patients, a final determination may take even longer.

And...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus...story.html

The number of dead in Florida stood at 144 Thursday, according to the Florida Department of Health.

But medical examiners in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, who represent the hardest-hit part of Florida, have flagged 59 additional deaths that may have resulted from the disease and for which they’re awaiting test results. Although a few of these may have been included in the Thursday evening death count, this figure represents a significant backlog that is certain to raise the total...

Even for confirmed deaths, it can take days for them to show up in the state tally.

Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Craig Mallak, for example, confirmed on March 26 that 67-year-old Dr. Alex Hsu had died and tested positive for COVID-19. Yet there was no listing of a 67-year-old Broward man on the state’s official list until two days later.

And on March 26, the Sun Sentinel had confirmed seven coronavirus deaths in Broward County, but only three could be seen in the state tally.

The Florida Department of Health declined to answer questions about its methodology or process for recording coronavirus deaths, other than to issue a statement saying the department’s list includes every person known to have died and tested positive.

And...

https://www.kpcnews.com/covid-19/article...ac476.html

INDIANAPOLIS — Daily reports about the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths may be on a lag up to two weeks before being reported, another factor limiting the ability to clearly see the current status of the virus across the state.

On Tuesday, Indiana reported its most single-day deaths to date, with 14 Hoosiers who were added to the count. Tuesday was also the highest-yet count of new cases, with 373 new cases recorded statewide.

But Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box warned that while current large daily increases are troubling as the state moves toward an expected peak sometime between mid-April and mid-May, daily counts may also be reporting cases or deaths that have occurred as long as two weeks ago.

In a best-case scenario, tests sent to the Indiana State Department of Health can be processed and should appear in the statewide report within 24 hours, Box said.

However, testing from private labs may take as long as 14 days to be reported to the state. Some private lab providers have become inundated with tests and have a backlog on reporting, Box said.

As for deaths, the state health department doesn't report deaths until it can confirm the fatality to a particular COVID-19 case and to the correct county of residence, she said.

Because of delays in testing, in some cases, the state gets test results back after a patient has already died, then has to retroactively chart the case, Box said.

Hoosier should expect both the number of cases and number of deaths continue to increase in the coming weeks, she said.

"It's a very sad reality that our number of cases and numbers of deaths are going to continue to increase," Box said, choking up during her address.

"I do not want Hoosiers to see these rising numbers and think the peak has arrived. We have a very long way to go," Box said.