Miami Herald Expose: DeSantis Is Cooking Covid-19 Data For An Artificial Decline In Fla. Deaths

[appalachiablue]

- Death on the Beach.

Daily Kos, Aug. 31, 2021. Ron DeSantis is trying to fudge the COVID-19 death toll in Florida.

Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths. As the delta variant spreads through Florida, data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this could be the most serious and deadly surge in COVID-19 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

As cases ballooned in August, however, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline, an analysis of Florida data by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald found.

On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system, the Herald analysis showed. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 “new deaths” per day over the previous 7 days.

Until 3 weeks ago, data collected by DOH and published on the CDC website counted deaths by the date they were recorded- a common method for producing daily stats used by most states. On Aug. 10, Florida switched its methodology and, along with just a handful of other states, began to tally new deaths by the date the person died. If you chart deaths by Florida’s new method, based on date of death, it will generally appear- even during a spike like the present- that deaths are on a recent downslope...

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[2naSalit]

1. I'm not...

A violent person but that asswipe has such a punchable face.

[brer cat]

2. I doubt he counts the people to flee the FL heat and humdity

into cooler northern states. We have a lot of them here in North GA and our Covid units are full.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. If he were running a private corporation where he was cooking the numbers and passing

policy that killed a high number of people, wouldn't the fucker face prosecution?

[spinbaby]

4. I have a friend who treats covid patients in Florida

She works in a hospital in the Orlando area. Last night four of her patients died; the oldest was 36. But she says the delta variant isn’t as much of a strain on the system because patients die faster.

[appalachiablue]

5. That is amazing, wow. Delta is less a strain on the system,

that's one positive in this nightmare. One patient was 36, why so many young?