California governor seeks investigation into coronavirus data disaster
(WorldNews Health)

Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed an investigation into a series of errors that led to a backlog of up to 300,000 lab records in the state`s coronavirus reporting system, a top health official said Friday. California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly broke the state`s silence surrounding the system`s persistent technical problems Friday with an overview of what led to the massive backup, which has left counties in limbo as they relied on old-fashioned spreadsheets to try to track the virus locally. Although the glitches themselves have been fixed, the backlogged data will take days to be fed into the...