I heard that if someone dies in a parish that he does not live in, his death is counted in the parish where he lived. Perhaps that is a valid reason for counting the death this way. We had a couple of days where the count went down.
Since late May my parish numbers became unintelligible as far as I could see.
May 23rd there were 659 cases and 23 deaths in my parish.
May 24th there were 45 cases and 0 deaths
May 26th there were 678 cases and 23.0 deaths (not sure how you get a fraction of a death but oh well.)
There were about 5 other days where the case count went from triple digits to double digits just like the example above and the math did not relate to the following day's case count.
I find it so disheartening that the authorities can't count and keep the statistics straight. But this is a parish controlled by Republicans and the politics of the coronavirus has taken over. So there won't be reliable information and no one can know the truth.
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_6d71b57c-b336-11ea-948c-573f03c3db2b.html
[T]he state’s public-facing dashboard for statistics related to the virus has been hobbled by a series of data glitches, making it almost impossible to chart the virus’s progress region by region.
The various snafus have made it difficult to make sense of the public data the state releases daily. Despite the problems, it is clear, based on a presentation the Health Department made Thursday and the available public data, that cases and hospitalizations are rising in many parts of the state, and that the spikes can’t be explained solely by an increase in testing.
Jeff Asher, a data analyst for the New Orleans City Council who tweets analysis of the daily COVID data and writes an occasional column about his observations for The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, threw up his hands after the state revised some of its data this week.
“No way around it, [the various problems with the case count] diminishes our insight into Louisiana's trend without a better understanding of which cases were removed from which parishes and on which date,” he tweeted. “Given the uncertainties about Louisiana's trend I'm going to stop daily updates of case trends.”
John Bel Edwards announced yesterday Louisiana will stay in Phase 2 and not go to Phase 3 at the time we were hoping it would be able to.
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