I heard this startling story from a patient the other day: "I got a phone call...telling me my COVID-19 test came back positive.  But I never had the test done, I told the caller.  I checked in and completed the paperwork, but I left because the wait was too long.  They never [actually] tested me." Incredibly, the caller didn't believe my patient.  "No," she insisted, "I am sorry...your test results were positive."  Worse, I suspect that these bogus "results" were sent to the state data bank that reports "new cases" to the CDC.  One more error in the Johns Hopkins numbers that most of the media rely on. I have read numerous other accounts similar to this on social media.  They never seemed credible until several of my own patients reported directly to me that this is exactly what had happened to them.  Then a member of my office staff...(Read Full Post)