1k deaths today. Really sad. I am afraid you're right, I can't remember who said it but it was something like the US always does the right thing, but only after all other options have been exhausted.
"DeSantis for the win" The governor of Florida is getting roasted online for comparing attending school to shopping at Home Depot or Walmart https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-governor-ron-desantis-school-home-depot-walmart-2020-7 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being ridiculed on Twitter over comments he made regarding Home Depot, Walmart, and school reopenings. "I'm confident if you can do Home Depot, if you can do Walmart, if you can do these things, we absolutely can do the schools," DeSantis said. He cited his desire to "minimize this education gap that I think has developed" because of the coronavirus. Twitter users were quick say that the experience of sitting in a classroom for eight hours a day is dissimilar from making a Home Depot run. (More at above url)
Where are the deaths they whined? Just wait 4 to 6 weeks we stated. Well unfortunately as expected here they are. Florida’s coronavirus death rate is trending up again after rising hospitalizations https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244108172.html 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. “It’s definitely trending up,” said Olivier Lacan, an Orlando-based volunteer researcher for the tracking project. Each day, Lacan calculates the daily average of newly reported deaths for the previous seven days to analyze the trend line. Public health experts agree that deaths are a “lagging indicator” of infections, usually trailing new cases by several weeks to a month. In Florida, the deaths announced on a given day could be from several days earlier because the state information does not include the exact date of death. This week, the rise in deaths has started to match the death rate of early May, when lockdown orders were still in place. Florida’s official statistics also only include deaths that are confirmed to be attributed to COVID-19, not cases that were probably caused by the virus — a statistic that some other states report — according to the COVID Tracking Project, which criticized that policy,along with other data quirks, in a blog post on Wednesday. The lag time and opaque reporting of the numbers make deaths a difficult metric to accurately analyze, Lacan said. But the rolling averages — considered by many public health experts as the best way to look at the information — have started to go back up after weeks of rising hospitalizations, which are a “leading indicator,” or an early warning of increased spread. “The trailing one is going red and the early one is also going red,” Lacan said. “It’s not good on either end.” The rise in daily announced deaths is not solely in Florida. Arizona and Texas, two other states that have seen resurgences of newly confirmed cases around the same time Florida started to spike, are also experiencing rising daily deaths. Even amid a surge that has captured the country’s attention, Florida’s governor has yet to start releasing COVID-19 hospitalization numbers statewide, though a spokesperon for Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that the state would start doing so. Miami-Dade County releases those figures daily. Topol, the Scripps researcher, called the lack of information “absolutely deplorable,” adding that the “sad part about Florida is they’re the only state [experiencing a surge] that doesn’t share current hospitalization data.” He expressed some cautious optimism that the surge in deaths nationwide would not be as sharp as the one the country endured during April. “We have a younger group of people and hopefully their survival will be somewhat better, but there’s no question we’ll see an increase in deaths,” Topol said. “It just may not have the same sharp slope we’ve seen in previous months.”
I don't think it's a data fluke, but there is certainly something to the reporting schedule. Remember that these are recorded in the day that deaths are reported, not when they actually die. The Covid portal from the state records them as they come in, but places them in the days they actually occur. This raises previous days but provides a more accurate picture of the trend rather than a massive spike like you see above, that everyone then attaches to and calls for Armageddon. Regardless, it is certainly not welcome news (unless you've been hoping for deaths to justify a position). Case count appears to be leveling off, albeit at much higher levels. So we can hope this is the peak for the state, but as we all know, delays in deaths come later and we could see these higher death numbers for some time. Also note that 50% of all deaths are occurring in the Miami area. The rest of the state is relatively OK. Though that could change, admittedly.
I'm not sure if you're referring to me or not. if so, I'd welcome to know what "theories" I am pushing. I am showing the daily data and statistics. That is it. Please clarify?
I can see you are positively gleeful that people are dying and you consider yourself vindicated that you rushed here with all the articles you could google in the allotted time. Though you weren't saying 4 to 6 weeks, you were telling us to wait 2 weeks back in the end of May. Would you like the actual posts where you said it? People didn't suddenly up and die yesterday, so it would be helpful to see the days they died to be able to plot a correct trend. Or maybe you believe they all keeled over just yesterday?
The Florida Dashboard has revised a lot of the previous days up, which would indicate these deaths reported are more indicative of when they occurred. I think they update around noon, so I'll post the update when it occurs. Again, the attempt is to see what the trend appears like.
Actually I am disturbed that you support a governor who deliberately hides DOVID-19 data and implemented policies that created this situation. DeSantis continues to be in denial. Every resident of Florida should be calling for their governor's immediate resignation. The increase in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Florida was easily preventable with implementation of public health policy aligned with science. DeSantis went down the complete opposite path.
North Carolina case counts...no deaths yet reflecting this, though. California cases are up significantly as well. With spiking deaths And New Jersey still has over 100 people dying a day. Though you'd never know it by looking at the graph from the whole period. NJ had as many people dying each day in April as Florida had during the whole crisis.
Shut up, idiot. You're not concerned about anything. You're thrilled the death count went up so you could trumpet how DeSantis is the root of the problem, when he has nothing to do with it. California is seeing spikes, where are your comments on Newsom? What narrative are you going to use when other states like your own NC start showing deaths as case counts continue to rise? They reopened later, they'll have spikes later in their second waves. That's kinda how this thing works. This is reopening and a second wave that will come from it. This isn't DeSantis. You keep saying he is manipulating and you can't show proof. Go away already.