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Mariana

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15. You have to watch for Florida to update the total deaths.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 10:29 AM

Jan 2022

That’s where they appear. Florida delays reporting deaths, sometimes for weeks, then adds them back to the day the death occurred. That obscures the death numbers nicely, and has fooled many people into believing hardly anyone dies of Covid in Florida.

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