Florida COVID update: 799 deaths are added to tally over the past month- Miami Herald

[JoanofArgh]

Florida on Thursday reported 15,586 more COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with 799 deaths over the span of the pandemic, all but one of which occurred in the past month, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

The one-day jump in the number of reported cases and deaths comes amid a change in the way deaths and cases are counted. The change was implemented by the CDC last week, resulting in occasional one-day aberrations like the 799 deaths reported on Thursday.

The inclusion of the previously uncounted deaths is part of Florida’s ongoing latest wave. It is the largest single-day increase in the tally in Florida COVID pandemic history.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253612503.html

[monkeyman1]

1. MASS HOMICIDE ! NO WAY AROUND IT !

[MySideOfTown]

2. He can't keep us up to date on how many died

But he can sure tell us how Regeneron stock is doing.

[Takket]

3. 799 in the last month? That's less than 3 a day. That can't be right.

[LisaL]

5. it would actually be 27 cases per day.

They were also added on top of already reported deaths.

[Takket]

7. I Mathed bad lol you are right.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I scanned through the article to see how CDC changed the case reporting

and found this -

On Aug. 10, the CDC changed the way it reported new cases and deaths in Florida. Cases and deaths used to be logged as total new cases reported on a single day. Now, Florida is reporting cases by the “case date,” according to the CDC rather than the date the case was logged into the system. The result of this change is a lag in cases by date and a significant number of cases backfilling over time.

And the reason I bring it up is that since I'm monitoring PA's and Philly's daily cases, yesterday became a sudden huge jump, both for state cases and the city's cases. I know coming off weekends there will be an artificially lower number due to how/when labs report and some labs are not operating on weekends, and then as the week progresses, larger tranches of results get reported, and by about Wednesday, you start getting a more stable number. But yesterday's numbers were pretty dramatically different from the day before -

PA on 8/18/21 - +2,332
PA on 8/19/21 - +3,451

PHL on 8/18/21 - +301
PHL on 8/19/21 - +787

So am guessing this may be part of the "change", with adjustments getting baked in, and whatever figures we get today (for yesterday) would start it back to normalizing I suppose (and hope is the case given this looks pretty rough )... A week ago, the city made note of of 8/12 & 8/13 numbers including back-filling with older cases.

[gab13by13]

6. Yeah but

what's the real Florida numbers? Those numbers may be getting closer.