covid death count in Florida is suspicious

[drray23]

Today 3 dead, yesterday as well. Meanwhile they are posting tens of thousands of new cases and presumably have quite a few in the hospital. Their daily death count has been in the single digits for a while. This is strange considering that most other states have an order of magnitude more daily.
Maybe Floridians are super-duper resistant to covid?? More likely the reporting is suspicious.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. I have been checking World-O-Meter's numbers every so often and I never see the death count

reach over 3. This has been happening for the last few months, and so I call BS on DeathSantis' reporting of Covid numbers.

[Historic NY]

2. My neice says everyone has it in Florida

she worked 7 days straight and went to decompress.

[relayerbob]

3. Yep, def bogus

They apparently wait 6 weeks before reporting anything, then do it in batches so the numbers get buried along with the dead (and probably still filled to the brim with BS). DeSatan should be thrown in jail for his actions killing so many and lying to the public about it

[ProfessorGAC]

4. I Don't Believe Them At All

Per Worldometer, they have about 10% of the cases nationwide, but under 0.1% of deaths.
Being in Florida causes a 100 fold disproportionation of their numbers? Pretty hard to believe.

[Mariana]

25. You have to look at the total deaths.

That number on December 16 was 62,191. I noted it in this thread at the time:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16153075

They delay reporting deaths, and then add them back in on the date the deaths happened. So, today, 23 days later, the total deaths in Florida at Worldometers reads 62,628 (and they may not be caught up with the extra delays from the holidays). Meantime, they've been reporting 0 or 1 or 2 deaths per day. It's dishonest and sneaky as hell what they're doing.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. I've Heard That Before

It's sloppy reporting of data, and it hides peaks & short term trends.
After all that, i still doubt the veracity of their reported values.

[Emile]

5. In a state that allowed over a million covid test to expire,who knows how many are dead!

[Tomconroy]

6. Dr. Forman at Yale tries to broadcast out accurate Florida

statistics on his Twitter feed and literally gets flamed by DeSantis' press people for doing it. Apparently FL only does a weekly data dump late on Friday. He also broadcasts daily hospital stats from a private source. This is yesterday's data dump:

Link to tweet

?s=20

Here's today's hospital stats:

Link to tweet

?s=20

[BigmanPigman]

16. 31% of Floridians testing positive, wow!

[Tomconroy]

17. I think that's the percent positive for those who choose to get

A Covid lab test. That's high though. Getting close to the positive rate South Africa had at its recent Omicron peak.

[BigmanPigman]

19. I think we need to add about 25% to

the numbers that are reported since so many go untested or unreported. This applies to most, if not all, of the states. People may have it but can't get a test or choose not to test.

[Tomconroy]

20. Yes. And then there are all the asymptomatic people who don't

Even realize they have Covid. The case numbers show that Covid is increasing or decreasing in a community.
Not much more.

[Pantagruel]

7. Demand an audit

they're very popular in GOP circles.

[dgauss]

8. Their lack of reporting also throws off the total for the U.S.

A few other states have pretty spotty reporting as well, like Oklahoma.

[demtenjeep]

9. Maybe Desantis will be #4

you know he has it

[Demovictory9]

22. yes, he does have it.. shame on him for hiding his diagnosis

its a chance for him to say "hey, this covid is serious business... get vaxxed" but all he cares about is shady plan to seek higher office

[Johonny]

10. I assume graduate students in the future will drum up a more official number

Even the best states are likely undercounted.

[drray23]

15. yes im sure there are mistakes on other states

but those are mistakes, not intentional hiding of the deaths which I suspect Florida is actively doing.

[lpbk2713]

11. I have seen reports from some Florida medical professionals.

They have been instructed in many instances to report cause of death as respiratory failure
or of cardiac failure. Something that could actually be true but not the primary reason.

[mucifer]

13. Everyone has respiratory and cardiac failure when they die. I am a hospice nurse. I can attest to

that

[drray23]

14. Maybe thats the trick they use

Unless there is a covid test that came back positive then its just counted as something else. They probably also do not test postmortem on purpose.

[mucifer]

12. Yup, in Florida everyone gets covid but no one dies from it. Hopefully people can stop

electing the anti science monsters who are not reporting the deaths

[Emile]

21. That's their propaganda. I know 3 people, 1 from Illinois and

2 from Indiana that moved to Florida's Redneck Riviera after retiring who are now all dead from Covid. And yes they were all registered republicans.

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. They're totally lying

[Mariana]

24. Watch the total deaths column for Florida.

They delay reporting the deaths, sometimes for weeks, and then add them back to the dates the deaths happened. That why the total deaths number is where you see the increase.

Florida has been obscuring the number of daily reported Covid deaths for months now. They're probably underreporting them as well.

[scarletlib]

26. DeSantis has been doing this from the very beginning of the pandemic.

At one point he was trying to claim that “snowbird” deaths from Covid should be counted in their home state even though they died here in Florida.

His administration has done everything it can to undercount and downplay Covid cases and deaths.

Ultimately the truth will come out.
In this case statistics will not lie.

If the state has final reports indicating many more deaths than normal for flu or heart failure or pneumonia or whatever they will be considered as Covid cases by reliable authorities.

This method is used by scientists to study past pandemics to determine fatalities from the disease as far back as the Black Death.

[Achilleaze]

27. The Republicans are doing organized systemic lying about COVID

So perverse, so twisted, so evil.