Florida removes 32,000+ COVID cases from tally without explanation

[Zorro]

Florida has removed more than 32,000 COVID-19 cases from its official tally without explaining why.

The state Department of Health said Friday in its biweekly report that 7,537,137 residents since the beginning of the pandemic had been infected by the disease. It claimed 7,569,449 on March 31.

The cut is equivalent to 17% of infections the state has logged so far this year.

A department spokeswoman could not be immediately reached for comment late Friday when it posted its report. The report did not explain the decrease. The department has posted nothing on its Twitter page since Thursday and nothing on its Facebook page since Jan. 13.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2023/04/15/florida-covidflorida-removes-over-32000-covid-cases-from-tally-without-explanation-count-drops-by-ov/70098933007/

Cooking the books to make DeSantis look not as bad?

[Lovie777]

1. Numbers over lives...................

he's quite evil aka DeSatan.

[Bengus81]

2. Need to really start dropping those Covid numbers before Death Santis announces a run....

That asshat would be 100X worse than Trump if anyone can wrap their head around that one.........

[Sympthsical]

3. A 0.4% difference

If I were going to actively cook books, I'd do a lot more than that.

I enjoyed the writer finagling the numbers to get that 17% figure. "Well, if we only count the past three months and not total case numbers. . ." 17% looks a lot bigger. 0.4% isn't a very interesting headline.

Ah, journalism.

That said, in the next couple months case numbers should go up, because how they're being counted is changing.

A recent statistic that actually had me raise an eyebrow:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7207a5.htm

Based on interviews conducted during November–December 2022, only 27.1% of adults and 18.5% of adolescents who had completed a COVID-19 primary series received a bivalent booster, and coverage was lower among Black and Hispanic persons

The total population that received a bivalent booster? 16.7% per the CDC. I thought bivalent boosters would be a hell of a lot higher than that. Got mine back in September. People have seemingly tapped out on Covid. It really is just something people are going to have to learn to live with.

[Initech]

4. Desantis is a mass murderer.

[barbaraann]

5. He's also a mass terrorizer/torturer of non-MAGA types.

Did he find out that he enjoyed torture while watching it in Guantanamo?

[lpbk2713]

6. Info released late Friday.

Knowing no one would be available for comment till Monday at the soonest.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. DeathSantis is cooking the books