Georgia Department Of Health Apologizes For Weekend Data Snafu

A police officer directs cars into a coronavirus testing facility at Georgia Tech last month in Atlanta.

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The Georgia Department of Public Health is apologizing for a processing error that caused the number of COVID-19 cases to decrease at some point over the weekend.

In a tweet, DPH said it inadvertently included 231 serologic test results among the positive cases.

Serologic tests are blood tests that look for antibodies and are used to find out how many people have had Covid-19 by.