The Ohio Department of Health says it will be reporting an artificially high COVID-19 case count for the next several days.
A release from ODH stated the inflated numbers are being caused by a processing lag due to the unprecedented number of cases reported.
ODH said as COVID-19 cases reached all-time highs, their electronic lab reporting system that feeding into the Ohio Disease Reporting System reached its processing capacity, causing a backlog.
A processing enhancement was implemented Thursday to expand the state’s capacity to process a higher volume of lab results. That enhancement allowed the backlog to clear and to better keep up with the daily processing of positive test results.
ODH said that as the results are processed, positive cases will be attributed to their proper illness onset date on the COVID-19 overview dashboard.
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