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Florida curtails reporting of coronavirus death numbers by county medical examiners
David Knowles
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-curtails-reporting-of-coronavirus-death-numbers-by-county-medical-examiners-173503327.html
Yahoo NewsMay 1, 2020, 12:35 PM CDT
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The death count compiled by the Medical Examiners Commission was often found to be higher than the figures provided by Floridas Department of Health, the Tampa Bay Times reported, prompting a review of the data and a suspension of its publication.
State officials have not specified what they find objectionable about the medical examiners count, nor when they might allow it to be made public again, the Times said.
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Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that state officials informed him that they would remove the cause of death and a description of each case from statistics published by the examiners.
This is no different than any other public record we deal with, Nelson said. Its paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.
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spanone
(135,795 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,264 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Just sweep the blood under the carpet and hope it doesn't bleed through? Try new, impermeable AstroTurf Xtra(tm) for your death denying needs.
gibraltar72
(7,499 posts)is massaging the numbers. He has been for a month. He's getting away with it.
C_U_L8R
(44,992 posts)Phoenix61
(16,994 posts)wrong, yet. This is a way to control the body count as they lift stay-at-home orders.
Grins
(7,199 posts)Florida REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR Curtails reporting of coronavirus death numbers by county medical examiners.
Because who else has that authority...?