All the money DeSantis received from the government went to his wife as payment for her 'advice' on how to handle the pandemic . . . . I bet The Messiah also received his share of the loot.
Sorry I was away this weekend enjoying life - went out boating and then to the beach. I see the usual 24/7 googlers were here posting all the articles about the end of Florida as we know it, gleeful that people are dying as usual. So let's do a data update, shall we? Mind you, this is actual data and not a news narrative, so it won't be as "sensationalist" as GWB. But its more grounded in reality. We sacrifice hyperbole and entertainment for facts and number crunching. So lets get the usual out of the way so we can proceed: DeSantis is all that is wrong with the world. He sacrifices babies and adults alike all for the political points he can score with his emperor Trump. DeSantis is responsible for the spiking cases in Europe now - don't think this has anything to do with Europe (or anywhere else) reopening. No, this is DeSantis's fault just like it is in Florida. The man is everywhere, his hands in everything. He is diabolical and needs to be destroyed - but how does one destroy Satan?? Ok, that's out of the way. New Cases as Reported appears more likely to have peaked, as we are about two weeks from the high print. Still doesn't mean the worst is over, but it is getting more likely. Deaths continue to still print numbers 100+, but show an early sign of a topping. Still, this is more hope than anything else at this point. Infection rate continues to drop. Was 1.09 at the end of last week, is 1.04 now. This is probably the best sign we can use that the worst in Florida is over - for now. Of course as restrictions are relaxed, all of these numbers will go the wrong way, which is what you are seeing in Europe now and everywhere else that is relaxing restrictions. Its not due to any one individual, the virus spreads when people go about their life, plain and simple. It isn't magic, it isn't sorcery. I can't wait to blame the resurgence of the virus in Spain, the UK, etc...on DeSantis when it happens later this year. Testing finally had a week where it was lower than previous week, but still above the half a million weekly test. The % positive also dropped from 12.9 previous week to 12.57 this week. Lastly, I think I saw something in one of the 100 or so articles GWB posted over the weekend saying how Florida is now worse than NY or something. I must admit to not wasting time reading these articles as there is usually little fact and all hysteria, but here are the numbers. You'll note that Florida has just under 18% of the total deaths NY did, and the deaths per 1M populace is 16.2% of the Empire State. In fact, Florida ranks #24 of 50 states in deaths per 1M populace. Expect the narrative to intensify in the next few weeks as the data in Florida gets better and the election gets closer. In my next post, I'll look at all of the evil all over the world DeSantis is creating when we examine the virus's resurgence in other areas of the world. Who knew DeSantis has so much sway around the world??
Have a good read and a laugh. Don't count negative tests, get high positive %. More data integrity problems. Number no where as bad as being trumpeted (and man, are they trumpeting it). Florida mistake on child COVID-19 rate raises question: Can Florida’s numbers be trusted? An error by the Florida Department of Health produced a COVID-19 positivity rate for children of nearly one-third, a stunning figure that played into the debate over whether schools should reopen. A week after issuing that statistic, the department took it back without explanation. The next weekly report on children and COVID-19 showed the rate had plunged to 13.4%. The department blamed a “computer programming error” for the mistake, in response to questions from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Experts said the change and the failure to explain it to the public calls into question the state’s data at a time when accurate and trustworthy information is crucial to a society grappling with an unprecedented health crisis.
And on, and on, and on again. Understand that these stories won't be picked up in the main stream media (or those pimping the MSM articles) because they don't work with the narrative. COVID test positivity is not a meaningful statistic because not all negatives are reported July 7, 2020 BY JENNIFER CABRERA Updated with a link to Florida’s reporting rule. The percentage of positive COVID tests has increased dramatically in Alachua County and in Florida, and we now have evidence that this percentage is misleading at best. The percentage of positive tests has been used throughout the pandemic as a measurement of community spread, with most public health authorities agreeing that it is best to keep that rate below 10% (with 5% being even better). Alachua County’s positivity rate hovered around 1% from May 9 to June 10, and it suddenly spiked on June 11 when the migrant farmworker cluster (with 90% positivity) was reported. Also around that time, the University of Florida stepped up its employee testing in preparation for their return to campus, and we also know that the university and its hospitals started testing athletes and hospital admissions, at least. Other employers are probably also testing employees. A quick scan of the labs reporting results to the state (starting on page 24) shows that a number of labs and hospitals are reporting 100% positive tests–i.e., they are not reporting the negatives. It looks like North Florida Regional and Shands are reporting at least some negatives, but we now know that UF is not reporting negatives in employee testing to the state. By law, all test results by physicians, hospitals, and laboratories are required to be reported to the state, but the list of labs reporting 100% positives indicates that’s not happening–or perhaps tests performed by an employer are not covered by the order. We know that not all of the local negatives are being reported because UF reports the results of its employee testing here; we log that number on a spreadsheet when it changes, and the number of total tests increased by 3,527 from July 4 to today (with only one positive test). Over that same period, the state reported an increase of 1,423 tests (with 195 positive tests). [Editor’s note: The total number of tests reported by UF mysteriously dropped by 3,186 a day after this article was published.] That means that the official positivity rate for those three days was 13.7%, but when you add the unreported negatives from UF, it becomes 3.9% (and that’s only adding the negatives we know about; there are almost certainly others). That paints a very different picture of community spread. If negative tests aren’t reported, they aren’t added to the total number of tests. That makes the reported positivity rate higher than the actual positive percentage of all tests performed. This can easily be seen when you look at the hospitals reporting 100% positive tests. If they reported 50 positives with 100% positive tests, for example, the number of tests reported to the state is 50. If they did 500 tests to get those 50 positives, 450 tests were not reported to the state and were not added to the total number of tests reported by the state.
Pay attention to the chart in the middle of the article - something I've been on about for weeks now. Florida Is A Case Study In Media-Induced COVID-19 Panic What do all these news accounts have in common? “Florida Sets Yet Another Coronavirus Record: 173 Deaths In A Day.” “A record 173 Floridians died from the virus Thursday, an average of more than one every eight minutes.” “The 134 new confirmed deaths is the second-largest increase on record, coming five days after the largest one-day jump of 156 last week.” “COVID-19 has ravaged Florida, with more than 237,000 people testing positive and 2,013 dying from the virus in July alone.” So what characteristic do all of the reports share? They are all false. It is not true that 173 people died from COVID-19 “in a day” in Florida. Nor did 134, or 156 on previous days. It is also untrue than 2,013 had died in July when that story was published. All of these scary headlines are based on the number of deaths reported by the state on any given day. This is not the same as the number of deaths that occurred on those days. The difference might seem trivial. But it’s crucial because the press is using the timing of Florida’s death reports to whip up a frenzy about COVID-19 running riot in the state. Take a look at the chart below. The blue bars are the number of deaths reported in four days last week. Notice the sharp uphill climb? That’s the story the press has been telling. But those deaths didn’t occur on those days. In fact, the vast majority of them occurred days, or even weeks, before. The actual date of these deaths is indicated by the orange bars. In fact, as of Sunday, the biggest one-day death toll so far in the state happened back on July 16, when 114 are known to have died. And when the press was claiming that 2,013 had died in July, the actual number of known deaths was 1,847. As we noted in this space last week, this distortion is being repeated by the media in state after state that has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases. While deaths attributed to coronavirus have increased, the “surge” is a fiction because many of those deaths happened earlier. But almost no news outlet explains this difference clearly to readers. The Miami Herald is one exception. In a recent story, it noted — after shouting about hitting a new record for daily deaths — that “the 173 deaths …. does not necessarily mean that every person died in the past 24 hours. 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.” But even the Herald didn’t have to leave readers guessing as to how many of those 173 died in the previous 24 hours. Florida’s COVID-19 tracking site had it right on the main page. Of the 173 reported, the number of people who actually died that day was … 19. This is only one of the problems with the death counts being shouted from the media rooftops. Here again, Florida serves as a model of how to sow fear. First there’s the missing context. While 173 deaths reported in a single day sounds like a lot, it pales in comparison to the peak reached in New York and New Jersey earlier this spring. New York’s reported deaths topped 1,000 on more than one day in April. That’s in a state with 9% fewer people than Florida. New Jersey’s peak was 523 on April 20. That’s three times the current “record” set in Florida — in a state that has 59% fewer residents. Another way to look at it is that the death rate in Florida at the moment is 273 per million residents. In New York, it’s 1,680 and in New Jersey it’s 1,785. In other words, the current situation in Florida is nothing at all like what happened in the northeast in the spring. Yet that critical information never gets conveyed by the press. Another bit of missing context is where these deaths are occurring. Of the more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths in Florida, 45% of them involved residents and staff at long-term care facilities. That’s not to say these deaths are less important. But it does provide a needed backdrop for everyone else in the state. Their risk is tiny by comparison. This finding also shows that what’s needed most is to protect at-risk populations, something that the generalized lockdowns failed to do. Pretending that coronavirus “doesn’t discriminate” is a dangerous fiction. Then there’s the fact that Florida’s death count is almost certainly inflated because the state is counting people who died with the virus, not just those who died because of it. A report by CBS-12 in West Palm Beach, for example, found that the state has counted as coronavirus deaths: A 60-year-old man who died from a gunshot wound to the head. A 90-year-old man who fell and died from complications of a hip fracture. A 77-year-old woman who died of Parkinson’s disease. Out of 581 deaths attributed to coronavirus in that county, “The I-Team found eight cases in which a person was counted as a COVID death, but did not have COVID listed as a contributing cause of death.” What’s more, only 169 deaths were listed as due to coronavirus without any other contributing factors. (As a side note, why is a local TV news team digging into the numbers, while the national media are content to repeat whatever the government tells them?) As we’ve said before, this sort of overcounting is going on nationwide, largely because the CDC has told states to report deaths this way. The question that deserves to be answered is why the mainstream press seems so willing and eager to whip up fear, rather than provide all the relevant facts, in context, so the public can make its own informed decisions about how to respond to this disease. — Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Just another day in DeSantis' Florida... Elderly people in nursing homes in Florida have started dropping like flies.... soon the death rate from nursing homes in Florida will exceed New York's. https://www.miamiherald.com/site-se...olicy-in-sunshine-state/article244401797.html Data shielding continues: The latest example of shielding data comes from the Agency for Health Care Administration, which collects reams of data on Florida hospitalizations for COVID-19, including how many patients are suspected to have the disease but haven’t yet tested positive. It’s all a public record, but the state won’t report all of it publicly. As researchers explained to the Herald, the state’s failure to publicly report everyone suspected of being infected with the virus is interfering with attempts by researchers and public health officials to navigate the response. Elders in jeopardy: For the last three months, DeSantis and AHCA SecretaryMary Mayhew have declared that their handling of the coronavirus in nursing homes and assisted living facilities was among their proudest achievements. Last week, there were 250 additional deaths reported in long-term care facilities in Florida — the deadliest week for residents and staff since the state first started releasing data on deaths in early May. Other numbers have emerged that indicate the victory lap was premature. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday released its list of 62 counties throughout the nation that it considers nursing home “hot spots;” 23 were in Florida. COVID leaks:A Miami Herald review found that in addition to a testing strategy that has been late, regulations allow thousands of untested vendors and staff to enter even as cases keep rising at an alarming rate. The trade association for nonprofit nursing homes is demanding more tests -- and unleashed a cry for congressional help. COVID tracker: For a daily update on COVID-19 numbers in Florida that doesn’t rely only on the Florida Department of Health check out the Miami Herald’s COVID-19 tracker here.
Bookmarked! Try posting some data that is your own. Do you own research - not just using your google bot. You might be surprised with what it shows you.