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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,665 posts)
Fri May 1, 2020, 03:02 PM May 2020

Florida officials are no longer publishing the state's medical examiners' coronavirus death data

Florida's Department of Health has stopped publishing the state's medical examiners' coronavirus death data after finding that their count was about 10% higher than the state's official tally, the Tampa Bay Times reported on Wednesday.

The health department has withheld the medical examiners' data for more than a week, according to the Times.

The Times reported that state officials said earlier this month that they wanted to review the data following the newspaper's report about the discrepancy with medical examiners' figures. But the Times said on Wednesday that they had not provided details on "what they plan to remove."

The state health department is still releasing its own numbers, with less detail than the medical examiners' data.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-officials-no-longer-publishing-154807861.html

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Florida officials are no longer publishing the state's medical examiners' coronavirus death data (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
And DeSantis wants to open up restaurants etc. lpbk2713 May 2020 #1
The families of the dead are still having obituaries published. crickets May 2020 #2
So, if the state doesn't report my Chainfire May 2020 #3

lpbk2713

(42,734 posts)
1. And DeSantis wants to open up restaurants etc.
Fri May 1, 2020, 03:11 PM
May 2020


Even as the numbers keep rising. When the Chamber Of Commerce speaks, DeSantis listens.

crickets

(25,946 posts)
2. The families of the dead are still having obituaries published.
Fri May 1, 2020, 03:19 PM
May 2020

They can't hide those. The numbers will come out eventually whether the FL health department likes it or not, and what they've done in trying to hide the data will come back to bite them.

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