Excerpt from
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/covid-19-news.html

Thousands of cases went unreported in California when a computer server failed.

As California surpassed 10,000 coronavirus deaths this week, the head of the 
state’s Health and Human Services Agency, Dr. Mark Ghaly, said a breakdown in 
the main disease reporting system had undercounted as many as 300,000 test 
results.

“Our data system failed, and that failure led to inaccurate case numbers,” Dr. 
Ghaly said.

The malfunctions in the data system were compounded in recent days by huge 
backlogs in testing — in some California counties results are taking more than 
two weeks to process — muddying the overall picture of the virus’s progression 
in the nation’s most populous state.





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