Florida's coronavirus death rate is trending up again after rising hospitalizations
Source: Miami Herald
The rate of daily coronavirus deaths reported by the state of Florida has begun to tick up again for the first time since May, a trend that was apparent even before Thursday’s announcement of a record 120 COVID deaths, following weeks of rising hospitalizations.
Public health experts and coronavirus data researchers say it’s still too early to tell just how bad the rise in deaths will get. But the increase was predictable, said Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego.
“Florida is running away with new cases, so you’d expect this to happen,” Topol said. “There are the denialists who say these people are younger ... and all these theories, but if the rise in deaths didn’t happen, you’d start to wonder what’s going on regarding how the deaths are being tallied.”
Volunteer data researchers at The COVID Tracking Project, which is analyzing national coronavirus data during the pandemic, have tracked Florida’s rise in coronavirus deaths using rolling averages to smooth out the spikes and valleys that come with the inconsistent reporting of deaths by the state health department. They said the upswing became apparent this week.
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the death rates being "very low" are full of shit. Deaths are always a lagging result of COVID-19, and will catch up in a few weeks. People have lived for months in the hospital in intensive care, and all of the sudden the body just gives up. This is something else that's going to come back and bite the stupid republicans hoping for a "miracle". Screw them!. 
