Florida is caught underreporting #COVID19 deaths by 3.5x

[OhioChick]

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[mopinko]

1. just like they have been all along in all the red states. we'll never know.

like katrina. nobody counted cuz nobody wanted to have to account.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Which state was the one that allowed people to decide if they wanted to report

the death of their loved one as Covid? I never got the chance to read that article.

[OhioChick]

3. Missouri?

Missouri coroner says he omitted COVID from death certificates after family requests

https://news.yahoo.com/missouri-coroner-says-omitted-covid-181100844.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

[albacore]

7. "excess deaths". When all the dust settles..if it does...

... the number of death certificates can be added up and compared to average years.
This is from months ago, but you get the idea.

[Blue Owl]

8. Excess DeSantis

[Captain Zero]

9. South Dakota. Christy Noem.

I'm sure God told her not to count them all.

[Kittycatkat]

4. ...wait a sec. Are you telling me that Florida is f#%king something up?

The list of Florida f#%kups could fill up the library of Congress. Where would one start when counting Florida f#%kups? Hanging Chad's? Trayvon Martin? Serial killers...

[stillcool]

5. that's not a fu*k-up

that's the standard method of accounting for the GOP. Don't like the number? Make one up.

[Kittycatkat]

6. True, and it is totally f#$ked up that the Florida SOP is to lie, cheat, steal.

[tiredtoo]

10. Don't recall the actual figures but

The first year of the covid pandemic Florida reported about 12,000 pneumonia deaths. For the prior 10 years they had been averaging about 3-4 thousand pneumonia deaths. Kinda like republicans voodoo economics.

[scipan]

12. Can confirm. Saw it on the CDC website.

[TheRickles]

11. A good way to bypass mis-reporting of Covid related deaths is with this CDC graph.

It shows excess deaths due to all-cause mortality, week by week, state by state. The national rate is pretty much back to normal compared to past years, but Florida is one of the few states (along with Texas) that is still cruising along with more deaths than expected each week. Not a pretty picture.

Go to "Select a jurisdiction" to choose a state: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm