Did you guys know that Florida doesn’t count deaths for people who are traveling or claim residency out of state?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...us-deaths-but-key-information-is-blacked-out/
Also, they are not including probable Covid deaths.
Meanwhile in Texas the governor is now advising stay at home.
Let it never be said these states were not warned.
You should probably re-read that article. I'm not sure it is saying what you think it is saying. Some interesting quotes I wasn't aware of:
After weeks of withholding it from public disclosure, state officials on Wednesday released the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled by Florida’s medical examiners.
But the document was redacted to remove the probable cause of death and the description of each case.
The omissions make the list meaningless, said Dr. Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission.
“You have to take the word from the government that these are deaths related to COVID-19,” said Nelson, who is also the chief medical examiner for Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties.
Uh, so there is a chance the deaths being reported related to COVID19 may, in fact,
not be related to COVID19?? Does this mean the statistics showing deaths might be
inflated??
The version released Wednesday showed the state’s count (of deaths) is now higher than the medical examiners’.
Wait a second, the state's count is higher than the medical examiners??
Under Florida law, medical examiners are responsible for certifying every coronavirus death in the state. The health department has been verifying deaths independently by having epidemiologists follow up on every case.
What’s more, the health department has said it is only including Florida residents in its count, although after the Times’ report it began posting some data on non-resident deaths in feeds online.
Well, this seems reasonable as the state with the highest rate of tourism in the nation would be interested in keeping its records straight for residents. It might also be a good time to bring up that almost
no one who has the ability to claim state residency in Florida does not do it, because doing so allows one to pay no state income taxes.
The state’s official count is now 3.3 percent higher than the medical examiners’. The data feed that includes non-resident deaths shows a count that is 7.8 percent higher.
Huh! So does this mean that the already low death stats are inflated by about 3.3%??
I'd like to thank you for your article. Also like to thank gwb and whynottrade for "thanking you for posting it" without actually reading the content. Since it supports my thesis rather than theirs, it shows that by thanking you for it, they aren't interested in the actual information as much as confirmation bias. Exactly as I have been claiming.
You should know that the chief beef of the article is that the Florida DoH isn't providing the detail on the patients like they used to, because they are citing privacy violations.
