Mary Wilson
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UPDATED AUGUST 31, 2021 08:02 PM
BY SARAH BLASKEY, ANA CLAUDIA CHACIN, AND DEVOUN CETOUTE
... As cases ballooned in August, however, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline, an analysis of Florida data by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald found.
On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system, the Herald analysis showed. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 “new deaths” per day over the previous seven days.
... Thedramatic difference is due to a small change in the fine print.
... Florida’s weekly report, published on Fridays, also shows a decline in deaths in recent weeks even as the number of total dead across the state spikes.Last Friday, the DOH report showed 389 COVID-19 deaths for the previous week. But a comparison of cumulative deaths from the report the week before showed that 1,727 additional deaths were logged by the health department over that seven-day period. The DOH chart of deaths shows a decline over the past two weeks
... The difference can be an addition of eight deaths one day, and 901 the following day
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253796898.html
BY SARAH BLASKEY, ANA CLAUDIA CHACIN, AND DEVOUN CETOUTE
... As cases ballooned in August, however, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline, an analysis of Florida data by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald found.
On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system, the Herald analysis showed. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 “new deaths” per day over the previous seven days.
... Thedramatic difference is due to a small change in the fine print.
... Florida’s weekly report, published on Fridays, also shows a decline in deaths in recent weeks even as the number of total dead across the state spikes.Last Friday, the DOH report showed 389 COVID-19 deaths for the previous week. But a comparison of cumulative deaths from the report the week before showed that 1,727 additional deaths were logged by the health department over that seven-day period. The DOH chart of deaths shows a decline over the past two weeks
... The difference can be an addition of eight deaths one day, and 901 the following day
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253796898.html