How Many COVID-19 Tests Have Been Administered in Escambia County?

According to county staff that have been working this issue nonstop for weeks now, there has been a total of 1,968 COVID-19 Tests administered locally since the outbreak.  But the state's official tally lists only 237----so what is causing such a huge disconnect?

The testing protocols in the midst of this COVID-19 outbreak are leaving many residents and policymakers frustrated.

Hundreds of tests have been administered in Escambia County since the outbreak.  The number is nearly in the thousands!

Yet the results reported on the state's dashboard indicate that only 237 tests have been performed in the county??  What is going on, and why is there such a delta between the number of tests we know have been conducted and the number that have been reported?

This needs to be figured out, and sorted out quickly.  We need better information and quicker turnaround on data dissemination.

The public deserves it, and policymakers from cities and counties all the way up the ladder to congress need good, solid data.  Without it--it is impossible to implement balanced solutions--not too light and not too draconian.

Right now, we are not getting the data we need.

More sobering:  Can we trust anything on that dashboard if we know the data for just our county (1 of 67) is so inaccurate?