{"id":26504,"date":"2020-07-02T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26504"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:43:38","slug":"orange-county-falsely-inflated-covid-19-testing-data-for-over-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26504","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Falsely Inflated COVID-19 Testing Data for Over a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAGUNA\u00a0BEACH, CA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Today,\u00a0Congressman Harley Rouda released the following\u00a0statement in response to the news that Orange County falsely inflated its COVID-19 testing numbers for more than a month, misleading the public about the state of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Orange County Board of Supervisors, chaired by Michelle Steel, sat idly by as their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c&amp;id=d70e7bbefb&amp;e=eeb0aebedc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c%26id%3Dd70e7bbefb%26e%3Deeb0aebedc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593804743013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEKb6Zukp2rDLUIGglpRpbFmLa8cA\">COVID-19 data was falsely inflated<\/a>, to the tune of 30,000 tests, for over a month. This revelation comes only hours after Chairwoman Steel was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c&amp;id=f81a350593&amp;e=eeb0aebedc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jacobsonzilber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D090f688bb56e19981ee7aa29c%26id%3Df81a350593%26e%3Deeb0aebedc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593804743013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFzOZZ3-XdW3metIrMIeW7__bFHsQ\">exposed for her deliberate misleading<\/a>\u00a0of the public during weekly County-wide press conferences. This isn&#8217;t a &#8216;mistake&#8217;\u00a0\u2014 it&#8217;s malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County working families and small businesses are counting on their County to provide accurate testing data and enact policies that protect public health and help our economy. Chairwoman Steel has failed on both counts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGUNA\u00a0BEACH, CA\u00a0&#8212; Today,\u00a0Congressman Harley Rouda released&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26505,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions\/26505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}