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An @Oregonian investigation: Presentation Pac-12 presidents and chancellors saw before postponing sports featured overstated COVID-19 statistics
The Pac-12 says it pulled the data from COVID Act Now, the L.A. County Department of Public Health and California Department of Public Health on Aug. 8. Those three sources all deny ever listing the inaccurate statistic and an L.A. County Department of Public Health official said the seven-day average positivity rate for tests in Los Angeles County has never been 19%.
“The most glaring incorrect metric listed the seven-day average positivity rate for tests in Los Angeles County as 19% — more than three times the 5.49% average listed by the L.A. County Department of Public Health.”
“A review of the statistics featured in the 13-slide presentation by the Pac-12′s Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Initiative and COVID-19 Advisory Committee to the conference’s presidents and chancellors, obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive via a public records request, reveals numerous discrepancies in data for the seven-day moving average of positive tests within the counties of Pac-12 schools. The seven-day average is one of the two primary metrics used by the conference’s medical experts regarding the prevalence level of the virus. The other was new infections per 100,000 residents within the county of each member school.”
“King County is listed as having a 5.1% seven-day average of positive tests in the Pac-12′s presentation, but that figure is 2.9% on King County’s COVID-19 daily outbreak summary data dashboard as well as the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard for testing in King County.”
“The Pac-12′s decision to postpone fall sports will cost more than $600 million, based on $50 million in projected losses at each school. Oregon athletics is budgeting for a loss of $56 million to $81 million, depending whether there is an eight-game spring football season with or without fans, no football season or no Pac-12 sports at all in 2020-21.”
https://t.co/nizTIUJj8U?amp=1
An @Oregonian investigation: Presentation Pac-12 presidents and chancellors saw before postponing sports featured overstated COVID-19 statistics
The Pac-12 says it pulled the data from COVID Act Now, the L.A. County Department of Public Health and California Department of Public Health on Aug. 8. Those three sources all deny ever listing the inaccurate statistic and an L.A. County Department of Public Health official said the seven-day average positivity rate for tests in Los Angeles County has never been 19%.
“The most glaring incorrect metric listed the seven-day average positivity rate for tests in Los Angeles County as 19% — more than three times the 5.49% average listed by the L.A. County Department of Public Health.”
“A review of the statistics featured in the 13-slide presentation by the Pac-12′s Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Initiative and COVID-19 Advisory Committee to the conference’s presidents and chancellors, obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive via a public records request, reveals numerous discrepancies in data for the seven-day moving average of positive tests within the counties of Pac-12 schools. The seven-day average is one of the two primary metrics used by the conference’s medical experts regarding the prevalence level of the virus. The other was new infections per 100,000 residents within the county of each member school.”
“King County is listed as having a 5.1% seven-day average of positive tests in the Pac-12′s presentation, but that figure is 2.9% on King County’s COVID-19 daily outbreak summary data dashboard as well as the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard for testing in King County.”
“The Pac-12′s decision to postpone fall sports will cost more than $600 million, based on $50 million in projected losses at each school. Oregon athletics is budgeting for a loss of $56 million to $81 million, depending whether there is an eight-game spring football season with or without fans, no football season or no Pac-12 sports at all in 2020-21.”
https://t.co/nizTIUJj8U?amp=1
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