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COVID-19: CT Nursing Home Residents Among Dozens Getting False-Positive Results COVID-19: CT Nursing Home Residents Among Dozens Getting False-Positive Results
Covid-19: CT Nursing Home Residents Among Dozens Getting False-Positive Results Dozens of nursing home residents were among those to receive false-positive reports from COVID-19 tests that were recently administered in Connecticut. Health officials in Connecticut said that upwards of 100 people, many from nursing homes in the state, were given false-positive results for COVID-19 after a “flaw” was discovered in the testing systems used by the state lab. Of the 144 people who were tested between Monday, June 15, and Friday, July 17, 90 received false positives, the state’s Department of Health announced this week. Under federal and state health guidelines, nursing ho…