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DOH Escambia, EOC to hold press briefing

   April 23, 2020

The media has been invited to a virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams today at 2:30 p.m. to discuss data reporting.

Dr. John Lanza, director of the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County, and Eric Gilmore, Escambia County emergency manager, will discuss how beginning Monday, April 27 the FDOH dashboard will be the data source. The EOC will no longer provide the Specimen Collection report that gave the media the number of collections each day and cumulative totals for positive and negative test results.

This is the most recent Specimen Collection report sent out last evening – notice it runs a day behind.

Day Date Inpatient, Outpatient, ED Total Specimens  Collected Mobile

Total  Specimens Collected 

 Total        Positive Results Total          Negative Results Total Hospita-lizations Total    Fatalities
Sunday 3/15/20 0 2 0 0 0 0
Monday 3/16/20 69 0 0 0 0 0
Tuesday 3/17/20 6 156 0 0 0 0
Wednesday 3/18/20 8 254 0 0 0 0
Thursday 3/19/20 5 243 0 0 0 0
Friday 3/20/20 7 254 0 0 0 0
Saturday 3/21/20 37 151 0 0 0 0
Sunday 3/22/20 39 100 0 0 0 0
Monday 3/23/20 22 190 0 0 0 0
Tuesday 3/24/20 18 186 0 0 0 0
Wednesday 3/25/20 15 196 0 0 0 0
Thursday 3/26/20 27 165 0 0 0 0
Friday 3/27/20 25 219 0 0 0 0
Saturday 3/28/20 33 264 0 0 0 0
Sunday 3/29/20 26 124 0 0 0 0
Monday 3/30/20 70 156 0 0 0 0
Tuesday 3/31/20 64 91 0 0 0 0
Wednesday 4/1/20 63 226 0 0 0 0
Thursday 4/2/20 58 115 0 0 0 0
Friday 4/3/20 80 134 0 0 0 1
Saturday 4/4/20 41 0 0 0 0 0
Sunday 4/5/20 74 99 0 0 0 0
Monday 4/6/20 261 149 0 0 0 1
Tuesday 4/7/20 39 225 0 0 0 0
Wednesday 4/8/20 97 120 0 0 0 1
Thursday 4/9/20 89 148 0 0 0 0
Friday 4/10/20 51 162 0 0 0 0
Saturday 4/11/20 49 105 0 0 0 0
Sunday 4/12/20 39 8 0 0 0 0
Monday 4/13/20 87 86 0 0 0 0
Tuesday 4/14/20 101 135 0 0 0 1
Wednesday 4/15/20 82 100 0 0 0 0
Thursday 4/16/20 36 153 0 0 0 2
Friday 4/17/20 78 103 0 0 0 0
Saturday 4/18/20 52 63 0 0 0 2
Sunday 4/19/20 57 0 0 0 0 0
Monday 4/20/20 48 116 0 0 0 0
Tuesday 4/21/20 87 380 0 * 0 2
TOTAL 2040 5378 418 4,608 35 10

 

We’ve been told the change will help better identify a 14-day decline in cases recommended by federal and state officials as guidelines for reopening efforts. The County JIC will continue to provide the County SITREP and twice daily updates to the media, which include ventilator and hospital bed availability.

This meeting will not be live streamed, but it will be recorded and made available to the public via YouTube and the County Emergency Management Facebook page as soon as possible.

Huge discrepancies consistently have popped in data reported by the county and state:

FDOH EOC
Dashboard Report
4/23 11 am 4/21 pm
Total Tests 5543 7418
Positive 419 418
Negative 5097 4608
Inclusive 5 na
Pending 22 2810

 

This could a very interesting meeting.

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