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Editorial: Change in COVID death count makes Florida look better. Lack
of transparency makes it look worse. The Miami Herald, The Miami
Herald, 10 hrs ago.
On Aug. 10, as COVID ravaged the state, Florida changed the way it compiles data on COVID deaths. It did so without telling the public — even though the change abruptly made it look as though the pandemic was, as one expert put it, in “artificial decline.”
A Miami Herald analysis published this week exposed theNEWS FLASH.... counting deaths when they "actually" happen is hard
behind-the-scenes shift. Here’s what changed: Instead of counting each COVID death on the date it was recorded, as many states do for their
daily COVID stats, the Florida Department of Health switched to a different methodology, counting each death on the date it actually occurred.
data, that's real. Holding that date until you decide to report it is
FAKE DATA because it creates a FAKE TIME OF DEATH into the data.
By using the actual moment of death it stops anyone from manipulating
the data by days weeks or even months to create a FAKE crisis.
The fact they didn't tell anyone other than the workers inputting the
data may or may NOT be by design... at any rate the public needs
accurate data and the change makes the data accurate.
There is often a significant lag — days or weeks — between the day a person succumbs to COVID and the day the death is officially recorded as
a COVID death. Charting the deaths under the new methodology can make it look as though deaths are declining even when that’s not true.
And that corrupts the DATA so the PEOPLE CHANGING the reporting system
did the right thing but it also means that the running average will have
a small adjustment as the data stream is converted to the new standard.
It's NOT the politicians fault, generally I blame the politicians but
the actual problem here is science, they either shouldn't use reported deaths as a measure of the virus or they need to be accurate about the
time of death.
Transparency matters.
It shouldn’t be left to the public or scientists to guess what the real numbers are when more than a year’s worth of data as important as this changed overnight, as Shivani Patel, a social epidemiologist and
assistant professor at Emory University told the Herald. Yet that’s exactly what happened. The state may have had valid reasons for making
the switch. But the public has a right — in this case, a critical right — to be informed every step of the way.
And here's a reason NOT to trust GOVERNMENT DATA, they changed the
process which was a good thing but then, no one considered it NEWS, I
guess the politicians and MEDIA were too busy lying about Biden's and
the Democrats many screw-ups.
And there are big ramifications here — both in the actual numbers we use to gauge how bad the pandemic is and, more broadly, in the continuing erosion of trust in government.
In numbers, here’s an example of what the change means, according to the Herald story. Under the old system of record-keeping, Florida death data on Monday would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported toIt will reset as the deaths all work their way past the length of the daily/weekly or Monthly average depending on the time for the running average, be it a week or a month and the DATA will give long term
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the previous week. Under the new methodology, the state shows 46 “new deaths” per day
in the previous seven days.
visibility that the collection process changed on that date that it did.
Where did all the other deaths go? They were added to totals in previous weeks because they actually occurred back then. That has the effect of pushing the bigger numbers into the rear-view mirror, over and over.
SO the previous data was wrong and outdated... and by forcing the use of
the actual time of death it now stops anyone form playing with the
numbers to try to make the epidemic look better or worse by hiding
deaths until they want to report them. I'm sure Democrats don't like it
when they can't manipulate the numbers to create FAKE NEWS and LIES THAT INSTILL PANIC AND FEAR.
Poll numbers dip.
But it isn’t even the re-calibrating of the numbers that’s the biggest problem here. It’s the lack of transparency. This is a state that is already infamous as a COVID hotspot, and the Florida health department
has done this kind of thing before — for example, including, and then excluding, non-resident deaths in its total counts. That has made it
hard for regular citizens to get a clear picture of how bad things are.
It's NOT significant and only lasts for the week or month that you are
using to get the RUNNING AVERAGE. It should have been reported but then again it's NOT undoing a correct number it's correcting a wrong number.
The lack of a full-on acknowledgment of this latest change smacks, once again, of a state government with a reflexive inability to own up to anything that might be construed as negative for the DeSantis administration.
More like it's just not that big a deal.
Gov. Ron DeSantis already is seeing dropping poll numbers. A Quinnipiac University poll said that a majority of Floridians think COVID-19 in out of control and think the governor is wrong to oppose masks in schools. Those surveyed also indicated, 46% to 41%, that the governor is hurting efforts to slow COVID’s spread in the state. You’d think he might catch
on that obfuscation in a time of COVID could turn out to be a deadly miscalculation for him politically.
We’d like to suggest to Florida state government something radical: Trust the people, and tell them what’s going on.
I thought that's why we had the FREE PRESS, they tell us what is going
on, but covering up Biden's and Democrats failures is a full time job so they don't have time to tell us about the past REAL SYSTEMIC screw-ups
that REPUBLICANS ARE FIXING.
Censorship by the FAKE MEDIA that fills the PUBLIC WITH PROPAGANDA is
part of the problem NOT part of the solution.
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