COVID deaths in Florida hit a record for the 2nd week in a row

[Zorro]

Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Florida once again recorded more coronavirus deaths than ever in a single week. The state logged 1,727 fatalities among residents over the past seven days, a comparison of Florida Health Department reports published Friday and Aug. 20 shows.

Health officials also documented 151,760 more COVID-19 infections, the second-biggest amount in one week.

Florida’s death toll stood Friday at 43,979 residents. The respiratory illness has infected 3,179,714 residents statewide since the start of the pandemic.

In another sign that the virus has yet to subside — the highly infectious delta variant is the dominant strain — 16.8% of COVID-19 tests came back positive over the past week.

Read more: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/08/27/covid-surge-florida-deaths-reported-week-record/5622161001/

[bluestarone]

1. Where in the hell is the Florida Health Dept?

Wouldn't they have some responsibility of protecting the citizens??

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Probably report to the Governor.

[bluestarone]

3. I'm sure they are BUT

You would think SOMEONE there would be making headlines BEFORE a kid dies?

[Evolve Dammit]

6. And be unemployed. Few can afford that. Not that I disagree at all with your statements.

[sop]

4. The rats are jumping ship, Florida's Surgeon General just resigned.

Dr. Scott Rivkees, the leader of the Florida Department of Health during the coronavirus pandemic, will leave his post as Florida's surgeon general. Alberto Moscoso, the chief public information officer for the Florida Department of Health throughout the pandemic also quit.

Here's an interesting article from the Gainesville Sun about the leadership crisis at the top:

https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/08/23/stephen-landay-and-three-others-florida-surgeon-general-should-resign/8240987002/

[Larissa]

21. Wow, just wow

DeSantis is allowing the virus to gallop out of control. The bodies of those who lost their battle against the virus are stacking up. That's a bad sign that things are spiraling out of control: people are dying faster than the system can process the deaths.

Business Insider: Florida Hospitals Refrigerated Coolers in the Morgues are Full
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-hospitals-refrigerated-coolers-stories-bodies-morgues-are-full-2021-8

The morgues at AdventHealth in Central Florida are full because so many people have died from COVID-19, WFTV-9 reported Thursday.
The hospital system is currently using refrigerated coolers to store the bodies. The overcrowding is said to be due to slowdowns at the local funeral homes, so the hospital has to store bodies longer.

[ananda]

5. I bet those numbers are fudged down too.

...

[Wuddles440]

7. That's an absolutely certainty!

Over the past year, there's been several reports regarding Governor DeathSentence taking measures to suppress the actual number of deaths.

[Bengus81]

15. You can bet on that!!

Just like they will be when the Sturgis Covid RUN really hits

[ananda]

16. Indeed. In fact, I would suspect all redstate numbers.

....

[Initech]

8. How is DeSantis going to win 2024 when all his supporters die from COVID?

[Cetacea]

9. Dem voters have a slim majority there. Low income and AA communities hit hard

Probably calculated...

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Most of the ones dying since

the vaccines came out are the unvaccinated. And, according to polls, Trump voters are the least vaccinated group.

[myohmy2]

10. I don't think...

...I'll be vacationing in Florida this year...

...it seems a little dangerous...

[VarryOn]

18. We flew into Orlando yesterday...

The airport was packed. Constant traffic from there as we headed to Daytona Beach. Rightly or wrongly, people are carrying on, it seems.

[eilen]

23. My husband visited his mother there last month

Delta Airlines had overbooked their planes so there were people stuck waiting for another flight. Each flight was packed. It took hours for him to pick up his rental (which was hella expensive). We joked that he should have just driven from NY and it would have just cost a few more hours since his layovers were so far apart and it would have cost less. He mostly just stayed at her house and visited with his recently widowed Auntie (his uncle died of cancer last Spring).

[Historic NY]

11. The VA is now stacking bodies in truck

in the largest hospital in Florida.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Governor Ron DeSantis has blood on his hands.

Link to tweet

[C Moon]

13. I wonder when DeSatan is going to echo fat man turnip and say, "No more testing."

[Bengus81]

14. More great stuff for DeathSantis's Presidential run resume'

GO RONNY GO!!!

[patphil]

19. I just looked on the Florida Dept. of Health website. There's something strange going on.

They're only reporting 389 deaths from August 20th to August 26th. A number I find hard to believe given their daily new case numbers for the past several weeks, and their reported deaths for the previous 2 weeks.

http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf

Does the Sarasota Herald-Tribune use a different source?

[Zorro]

20. The papers are comparing Fl DOH weekly cumulative reported deaths

Week of August 13 - August 19: 42,252
Week of August 20 - August 26: 43,979

That's a difference of 1,727 reported deaths. It does not jibe with the Fl DOH's reported 389 deaths for the latest week.

It may be that the Florida DOH is only reporting the deaths of Florida residents, but in any case, their 389 reported deaths for the latest week is misleading. They should explain the discrepancy between cumulative deaths and the weekly reported deaths.

[LisaL]

22. Florida appears to be doing some funky death reporting.

My guess is, they are not reporting all deaths for the latest week, and didn't report all deaths for the previous weeks either.
But now they have added the previous deaths they didn't report to the total number of deaths.
And some time in the future they will add deaths to this latest week.

[Vinca]

24. DeSantis must be vying for the title of "Official Who Killed the Most Americans" now

held by Trump. He'll never get it, of course, but they'll die while he's trying.

[BlueWavePsych]

25. Yup!

[Vinca]

26. It amazes me how perfectly political cartoonists (and other cartoonists) make the point.