Health director explains gap in reported state Covid-19 numbers

Health director explains gap in reported state Covid-19 numbers

As we approach one year since the onset of covid-19, many in missouri are noticing a large gap between the number of covid-19 cases and deaths reported by the state versus local health departments.

It's led to confusion over which numbers are correct, locally at the st.

Joseph health department, staff say the difference in case numbers that they are reporting compared to state numbers has varied by more than 100 almost since the pandemic began.

And a recent kansas city star report says statewide, numbers are off by as much as 80,000 cases our local health director it's harder to keep up with case counts at the state level versus the local level, (sot ) state health department is getting lab results from every entity in the state that does testing.

That's a lot of tests and they're getting positives and negatives while we're just getting positives.

So, that slows the state down on data entry so they're going to be a little bit behind."

Bradley says death counts are also off because the state needs to process those death certificates that can take time..

Bradley says it's important to keep all this in mind when researching the latest covid-19 numbers, she says the numbers reported by local health departments are generally the most accurate.