Tech glitch holds up COVID data as California hits 10K dead
(World News USA)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Health officials say they are flying blind as a technical glitch continues to plague the data system California relies on to drive decisions about whether businesses and schools can reopen, as the state on Friday surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly stressed in media briefings and interviews the importance of using numbers to “look at conditions as they change in real time, based upon the data, based upon local conditions,` as he said in June. But his administration has not explained why the state database used to collect test information from labs is lagging, when the problem began, or when it will be fixed....