Big jump in negative test results

[gadenbuie]

I haven't seen an explanation yet for today's big jump in negative test results.

This afternoon, negatives went from 1,870 to 5,710.

timestamp,total,negative,positive,pending,florida_residents,florida_deaths,non_florida_residents,monitoring
2020-03-20 16:26:27 EDT,3416,1870,520,1026,474,10,46,1009
2020-03-20 18:25:11 EDT,7367,5710,563,1094,510,11,53,1049

Note that the dashboard has added the monitored persons in the total tested column, so it's advised to recalculate total using the desired columns.

[gadenbuie]

It seems that they are now reporting the number of negative tests where multiple tests (at different facilities) may be associated with one patient/case.

The numbers in the table below represent the number of people tested. A person can be tested by more than one laboratory and can have both positive and negative results. Therefore, the sum of the numbers in each column will be larger than the total number of people tested.

   timestamp               name     value
   <chr>                   <chr>    <dbl>
 1 2020-03-18 17:08:00 EDT negative  3557
 2 2020-03-18 17:08:00 EDT positive   392
 3 2020-03-19 09:54:00 EDT negative  4403
 4 2020-03-19 09:54:00 EDT positive   468
 5 2020-03-19 16:53:00 EDT negative  4959
 6 2020-03-19 16:53:00 EDT positive   513
 7 2020-03-20 09:55:00 EDT negative  5817
 8 2020-03-20 09:55:00 EDT positive   609
 9 2020-03-20 17:40:00 EDT negative  6293
10 2020-03-20 17:40:00 EDT positive   668
11 2020-03-21 10:08:00 EDT negative  7268
12 2020-03-21 10:08:00 EDT positive   776

The positive case count is not duplicated, however.