Florida must have really good doctors.

[mjvpi]

I live in Montana. Florida has been showing 40 times the number of infections for weeks, yet their number of daily deaths have been virtually the same as Montana. When you compare their numbers of deaths to California and Texas, who have both been posting lower numbers of daily cases, the survival rate in Florida seems so much better. Simply Amazing. Or could they have a different way of counting in Florida? Maybe it is the quality of health care. I am only an old audio engineer. What do I know? In my world physics and science are constant and professionals get consistent results no mater where they work, all things being equal. Snark aside, something looks off in the Florida data. Nothing against their doctors.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Well, down in FL they fire the professionals who tell the truth, then send thugs to raid their house

to find out who they might've shared the real data with.

Does that ... answer the underlying question at hand?

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Look Here

Florida doesn't always report deaths, and the #'s on Worldometers each day are ALWAYS incorrect.

They are averaging around 175 deaths/day on a 7-day average basis.

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+deaths+florida

[mjvpi]

5. Thanks! Montana does post to Worldometer accurately.

You made me read real news reports.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Yeah, that chart is all kinds of weird

Florida is doing some funny things in reporting so it's not the daily headline.

I don't think they can get away with all out lying, so they're not reporting it regularly and are hiding the worst days they report.

[oasis]

3. Gov. DeathSantis keeps the actual Covid fatality totals on the down low.

He's planning to make a bid for the presidency in 2024.

[Rstrstx]

4. They're cooking the books

I’m seeing death counts of like 6 or 7 a day on worldometer but if you go to google and look at a 7 day rolling average the daily deaths have been in the 130-150 range. I’ve heard they’re using something akin to accounting tricks by reporting very low daily rates then going back and “correcting” for them when they tally up the damage done for the previous week.

[Mariana]

7. In addition to that, I bet they aren't reporting all of them.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if lots of Covid-19 deaths are being counted as something else. It's true the doctors are very unlikely to falsify the death certificates, but it's also true that many of those death certificates may be open to "interpretation" by those who compile these numbers. Something like, "This death certificate says the person died of a stroke because he had blood clots from Covid-19. Count it as a stroke." may be going on in some jurisdictions, and possibly at the state level.

[RockRaven]

6. Forget reported COVID deaths in *any* state, just look at excess deaths...

Even blue states have red counties -- and corrupt, partisan, or incompetent persons therein. The one thing that cannot be hidden -- in the US, for the most part -- is the fact that the person died at all.

"Excess deaths" might be less precise, but it will probably be more accurate when making state-to-state comparisons.

[Mariana]

20. Excess deaths is the more accurate number in the long run

but there can be long lags in reporting from some jurisdictions.

[scipan]

22. Excess deaths from CDC

I can't seem to copy the graph but it looks like 1300-1400 excess deaths per week, so about 200/day.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[ananda]

8. Florida is not reporting their COVID deaths and stats.

…

[Phoenix61]

9. They are but they report weekly not daily. nt

[ananda]

15. But how fudged are their numbers?

???

[Phoenix61]

19. I don't think they are.

Too easy to get caught. The county knows the numbers it sent to Tallahassee. Of course that didn’t stop DeSatan from trying to spin it that the children in the hospital could be there for RSV not covid.

[Mariana]

21. I doubt they're doing anything like falsifying the death certificates

but I wouldn't be surprised to find out there's some "interpreting" of the causes of death going on, when it comes to reporting Covid-19 deaths. Something like, "It says he had a stroke because he had blood clots from Covid-19? List it as a stroke."

[Chainfire]

10. The Florida numbers are the Republican version of the truth.

Variable and flexible to fit the political message and having nothing to do with facts.

[bullwinkle428]

11. Compare and contrast with Texas - I know that Abbott is doing everything

possible to make things worse, just like DeSantis, but the Worldometers numbers do seem to show that standard 2-week lag time between case increase and death increase...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

[Johnny2X2X]

13. On further review, Woldmeters is not pulling their data correctly

I think Worldmeters is pulling in the data funny.

Johns Hopkins seems to handle Florida's data fine.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/florida

[ScratchCat]

14. Can't say for sure, but here's an idea too

Florida has a very high median age. We have very high vaccination rates of the elderly. The current hospitalization numbers are populated by people 30-50 who were not vaccinated. Previously, the median age for a person hospitalized by Covid-19 was higher. This could partially explain the lower death rate for Florida. Though, as others have pointed out, numbers aren't being reported daily which then makes it more cumbersome to parse.

[LisaL]

18. People are still dying.

NT

[KentuckyWoman]

23. I am 80 with a fussy kidney.

If I die in FL of the Covid, it will get reported as kidney disease.

Cooking the books indeed.

[lpbk2713]

16. Stroke, respiratory failure, cardiac failure.

They have probably been overruled many times on their cause of death.

[bluecollar2]

17. Alternative maths....

It's a thing down here.