
In court documents filed this week, the nurses claimed Landmark Hospital in Athens intentionally manipulated test results to cover up an outbreak at the facility.

"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," explained one of the nurses.
The nurses said the hospital instructed staff to take samples from inside someone's throat, but send the samples to a lab run by Piedmont Hospital that only tests nasal swabs, knowing the results would turn out negative for COVID-19.
"I did the test, and it did turn out positive and I was terminated for not having a doctor's order for a test," the nurse said.
"So, intentionally taking a swab from the trachea and labeling it as coming from the nose will lead to it being handled improperly by the lab that's analyzing it and will not likely lead to accurate result," Heiman said.
"You're lying to your patients," the nurse said. "You’re lying to your family members and quite frankly for a disease that has killed so many people, quit being so careless."
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