I'm not going to waste time reading all your articles coming from sources who are just as slanted as you are and hate DeSantis as much as you hate him. As I said, I really don't give a shit. I know what the risk is to my family (the whole risk - both of the virus and the economic risk), and that's all that matters to me. ========================================= You too, GWB. May you have a wonderful, safe holiday season and may your next year be prosperous and all that you hope.
COVID-19 is on the rise in FL nursing homes and assisted facilities, so what happens now? Resident cases are steadily increasing https://www.fox4now.com/news/corona...s-and-assisted-facilities-so-what-happens-now
The nursing home population makes up about one half percent of the total population, yet account for nearly 50 percent of the deaths. 250K dead divided in half and we're at 125 thousand. Toss out the old with health issues, morbidly obese, and those with comorbidities of a serious nature and we can half that number again. What are we left with? The equivalent of a really bad flu season. When have we done anything even remotely close to what we've been going through for that? Never.
A really bad flu season + 50% more, plus 50% more again. Or did those other 187,500 deaths not really "count".
DeSantis and his associates keep harping on “protect the vulnerable”. There is no group more vulnerable to COVID than nursing home residents. Yet DeSantis has placed COVID positive patients in nursing homes (after criticizing New York for doing this). He opened up nursing homes for all visitors without restrictions while urging that family members should hug the residents. At the same time he cut all COVID testing funding for nursing homes. Now he allows you to remove and return nursing home residents without any type of COVID testing being required. All of this in a state where over 40% of COVID deaths are in nursing homes currently. SAD
Back on the subject of reported deaths versus date of death. Jason Salemi, a biostatistician and professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa has put together a very good resource presenting this information and other COVID data from the state of Florida. http://covid19florida.mystrikingly.com/ He provides an entire set of tables, charts and graphs on day of death versus reported death date. http://covid19florida.mystrikingly.com/deaths One good example is this graph from a visual representation of the delay in number of days of a death being reported. Note the delay has increased significantly in recent weeks. 3. Lag in Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths A graphical look There is also this view of reporting lag. 4. Deaths By Date of Death and When They Were Reported Also a good illustration of reporting lag There are many other useful Florida COVID data resources on the website. All based on data provided from the state of Florida. One example are these graphs on date of death and reported date of death. Note the recent few weeks are not complete until the state data catches up. There are also complete tables on COVID deaths by date aligned with reported days. All the information is downloadable and sharable. Many graphs allow you set date ranges, etc.
Your analysis here is terrible. If the restrictions weren't in play, it would be a lot, lot worse. The Covid Denial bs got old a long time ago.