Turns out that down there the person who makes that determination has been bouncing around and the time for the reports to be turned in has lags….
The system in the state for tracking patients seems haphazard…
Florida Governor DeDantis has been boasting that his states numbers are dropping and he has worked hard to open of the state….
The Governor of New York is being investigated by his Attorney General and the FBI for issues with virus related data releases….
Anyone think that is gonna happen in Florida?
Are Floridians getting an accurate picture of who is dying from COVID-19 and when?
Not likely.
Florida in August changed its rules for determining whether someone died of COVID-19, moving that responsibility from public medical examiners to the doctors who treated the patients. The change was meant to relieve medical examiners who were swamped with COVID deaths, but it also created inconsistencies in how COVID deaths are documented and raised new questions about the accuracy and timeliness of the state’s COVID-19 death counts.
Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees this week ordered an investigation into delayed reporting of COVID deaths, noting that some are now being reported two months late. A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis questioned how a death could be caused by COVID months after a positive test result. At the same time, health experts say it is more likely that Florida’s COVID deaths, now at more than 16,500, are understated….
There’s probably a lot of undercounting going on.
Much of it just due to the inherent problem of determining exactly when a death is Covid related.
DeSantis problem is that he openly brags about his response and touts it’s superiority over other states.
You do that you can expect more scrutiny.
I agree there is undercounting in other states too, but more in Florida than elsewhere.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/03/facebook-posts/claim-florida-undercounting-covid-19-deaths-uses-f/
Meanwhile here in S.C…Governor Henry McMaster has given himself an “A” for his handling of the pandemic.For sure he is a true national treasure.
Cuomo is in a rush to open up NY as numbers level out and stop dropping….
Cuomo is pushing his best thing with the public…
Nate Silver says the data studies point to this to be expected….
And vaccines should drive them down again….
The ‘experts’ say mask usage in the MOST important thing in the near future…
Maybe Jack can explain why McMaster believes he has been successful with Civid-19, given that SC has more COVID-19 deaths on a per capita basis than the USA as a whole. Maybe because Anyone who wants the vaccine in that state is now eligible?
I would never attempt to explain anything that Henry McMaster ever said.
Will this work?
The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as “vaccine passports” — that would allow Americans to prove they have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as businesses try to reopen.
The effort has gained momentum amid President Biden’s pledge that the nation will start to regain normalcy this summer and with a growing number of companies — from cruise lines to sports teams — saying they will require proof of vaccination before opening their doors again….
More…
Good idea
A LOT of Republicans won’t think so….
Franklin Graham told his Facebook followers that he got vaccine and they should too.
But thousands of his followers responded by cancelling him. Said one “God is our healer, not Chemicals”. Another said that “the vaccine is the mark of Satan” and”why mess with God-given genetics”
Franklin Graham did not have such a negative reaction among conservatives when he compared Donald Trump to Jesus.
Kooks
It’s also points out the difficulty in getting to herd immunity.
And how there are times when religion is evil.
The original estimates that herd immunity. Could be achieved at 60% seems too low for a bunch of reasons,* some of which are included here: 1) new variants, 2) we still don’t know if vaccinated people can be carriers who just don’t get sick, 3) we still don’t know how long the vaccine will last. 4) Little knowledge of the impact of the vaccine on children. 5) the vaccine is causing changes in human behavior. If the vaccine is 90% successful, it will still spread if instead of seeing one person a week, they person now sees 10.
So if all that be true?
I suppose this pandemic will never end.
How is the vaccine causing changes in human behavior?
airplane travel is up sharply for example.
I would have thought I would have gotten a pamphlet on what under current CDC guidelines I still can’t do, and what, if anything, I can now do that I couldn’t do before. I got nothing.
Have you been vaccinated yet?
If not,do you intend to?
I got my first shot yesterday but I had to travel several counties away.
That Funky Cold Moderna (recall the song by Tone-LOC)