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Nurses file lawsuit against Athens hospital for falsifying COVID-19 test results

Four nurses filed a lawsuit against Landmark Hospital in Athens alleging that the hospital is falsifying COVID-19 test results.

The suit, filed by four anonymous nurses in Gwinnett County Superior Court on Wednesday, asks for court intervention to stop Landmark from receiving new patients or transferring any patients to other hospitals.

“Landmark fabricated negative results so as to continue to be able to discharge patients to make space for new admissions and avoid the negative publicity and oversight that would result if the positive COVID-19 results were disclosed,” the lawsuit says.


Two nurses — one who used to work at Landmark and one who currently works there — spoke to 11Alive anonymously. They said Landmark purposefully sent throat swab tests to the lab at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center that only analyzes nasal swab tests, knowing that they would result in a negative test.

The nurses also said Landmark intentionally retested patients who tested positive in order to get a negative result.

“When they had someone who would turn out positive, they would re-do the test so that it would come back negative and they would say that it was a false positive,” one nurse told 11Alive.


A nurse told 11Alive that they were fired for performing a test that came back positive because they didn’t have a doctor’s order for the test.

The lawsuit alleges that Landmark did not test any patients who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 until June 4. It also says a patient tested positive for the disease a day after being discharged from Landmark.

 
crandc said:
Before there were pregnancy tests no one had babies.
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the Onion Test
While the Ancient Egyptians were on to something with the wheat and barley test, they and the Ancient Greeks seem to have had a fuzzy understanding of anatomy. Both Egyptian medical papyri and Hippocrates, lauded as the father of medicine, suggested that a woman who suspected she might be pregnant insert an onion or other strong-smelling bulbous vegetable into her vagina overnight. If her breath smelled of onions the next morning, she wasn’t pregnant; this was based on the idea that her womb was open, and wafting the oniony scent up to her mouth like a wind tunnel. If she were pregnant, then the womb would be closed, so no wind tunnel.
 
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The worst day of the Covid-19 pandemic yet: World Health Organization figures reveal 183,000 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed on June 21 in the biggest 24-hour jump since the crisis began
  • World Health Organization figures revealed 183,020 Covid-19 infections were recorded on Sunday, June 21
  • Nearly a third of the Covid-19 cases occurred in Brazil (54,771) followed by the US (36,617) and India (15,413)
  • Overall number of confirmed infections has now topped 8.7million and 460,000 deaths have been recorded
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eases-coronavirus-cases-recorded-weekend.html
 
I am having concerning symptoms. Will see how I feel tomorrow after resting. And Lucia has hairballs.
 
crandc said:
I am having concerning symptoms. Will see how I feel tomorrow after resting. And Lucia has hairballs.
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Oh no! Please call your doctor immediately! Make an appointment for testing. If you feel better tomorrow you can cancel your appointment but with this latest surge in covid cases there is a growing shortage of testing supplies.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Oh no! Please call your doctor immediately! Make an appointment for testing. If you feel better tomorrow you can cancel your appointment but with this latest surge in covid cases there is a growing shortage of testing supplies.
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Where did you hear that there is a growing shortage in testing supplies?
 
crandc said:
I am having concerning symptoms. Will see how I feel tomorrow after resting. And Lucia has hairballs.
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I'm sorry to hear about this and will be sitting on pins and needles until you update us tomorrow. I care.
 
Actually between doctors. I was going to one but she left the area. Went to another in the practice and didn't like her. Was looking up new primaries when virus hit and they aren't doing routine visits. There are two urgent care clinics near me, if I don't feel better tomorrow will go. Promise.
 
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