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Connecticut Misdiagnosed Elderly Patients as COVID-19-Positive

The state’s Public Health Laboratory in Rocky Hill misdiagnosed 90 people as COVID-19-positive during the past month, a mishap that likely led healthy nursing home residents to be housed with infected patients, state health officials acknowledged Monday.

CT DPH press release: https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Press-Room/Press-Releases—2020/Connecticut-State-Public-Health-Lab-Discovers-False-Positive-COVID-19-Test-Results