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Iowa says it will fix error that backdated COVID-19 results

by Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 2:03 PM

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is correcting a major flaw in its coronavirus data that backdated thousands of positive and negative test results and distorted local infection rates across the state, a spokesman for Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday.

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