NY deaths are old news but are a cautionary tale of what can happen if you let these outbreaks get out of control. Hard to take anything you say seriously you are so lost in politics not even rational politics. Your data is actually totally meaningless towards handling the current situation. NY has the virus under control; Florida does not.
The Sad Tragedy Known As Florida
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NY deaths are old news but are a cautionary tale of what can happen if you let these outbreaks get out of control. Hard to take anything you say seriously you are so lost in politics not even rational politics. Your data is actually totally meaningless towards handling the current situation. NY has the virus under control; Florida does not.
The first wave of the pandemic has completed in New York... it is just getting started in Florida. Primarily because DeSantis refused to take measures to prevent it.
Many medical experts are stating that Florida will see 600 deaths per day in August.
So you agree that your title is total bullshit? Or you just too smart by being ahead of the game?
FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results
By Robert Guaderrama
Published 1 day ago
Updated 5 hours ago
FOX 35 Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. - After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.
The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
By Robert Guaderrama
Published 1 day ago
Updated 5 hours ago
FOX 35 Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. - After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.
The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
Florida is about to be a sad tragedy.... and also a case study on poor government leadership of a state in response to COVID.
Sadly the situation in Florida was preventable. New York should have served as a lesson on the severity of the pandemic and the measures that needed to be put in place to prevent a dangerous outbreak.
It is nothing like they warned might happen. If you like we can re-visit all the "experts" and their "forecasts" vs. where we are. I don't think you want to go down that road. I have, and I am very much aware of the data disparity vs. forecasts and models.
As for who is and who is not struggling, the "struggling" is a part of Miami right now. That's it. Does it have potential to get out of hand? Of course it does. I'm not naive, this is a virus and if not controlled will spread like crazy.
But I've spent all the time in the data. I've posted all of the data for all to see in the DeSantis thread. Not one of you folks on the other side of the conversation has challenged any of my data or any of the methods used. Not. One. I regularly have lunch with the Colonel in charge with US Military Pandemic Prep at McDill here in Tampa. We go over the data because we're data junkies and good friends. Neither of us pay attention to the main stream media. They're clueless.
So how about we do this? Lets leave that thread for factual posts about actual data and subjective opinions on what the data could mean, and useful, serious content about the situation - the real situation - in Florida. And we can leave this thread to gwb's articles and narratives and name calling and DeSantis mud slinging and all that. You know, all the stuff that doesn't add value, doesn't solve anything and just is essentially a "nyah nyah...people are dying...haha" thread.
So a very small number of labs (as outlined in the news media) entered figures with a decimal point wrong when entering the percentage manually. It should be noted that their lists of total tests, positive tests, and negative tests were all entered correctly -- with a concern over if all the negative tests were entered in a timely matter.
As noted in the media coverage -- the type of lab needs to be taken into consideration. Labs in hospitals that only test patients admitted with COVID-19 symptoms have near 100% positive tests generally. Drive up test locations generally have 3% to 20% positive tests; while contact tracers tend to have 1% to 3% positive test results.
A friend of mine in Florida owns a coffin making business . . . . . . he says in spite of employing 15 more workers , he cannot keep up with the demand.
Of course, that's not exactly the kind of return-to-work we all had in mind...
And we want to allow mail-in voting???