Florida is ablaze with COVID-19--and its case data reporting is a hot mess
With the hypertransmissible delta variant on the rampage, Florida has become the epicenter of transmission in the US. The state is experiencing its largest surge of COVID-19 cases yet in the pandemic. Hospitalizations have reached record levels, and deaths are on the rise.
But instead of focusing on the response to the dire public health emergency, state officials appear to be squabbling over pandemic data and health measures.
On Monday night, Florida's health department blasted media outlets for reporting the state's most recent daily COVID-19 case counts—as the counts were relayed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Link to tweet
The CDC, which gets its data from Florida's health department, reported that the state had recorded all-time highs of nearly 24,000 new cases on August 6 and over 28,000 daily new cases on both August 7 and August 8. But the health department, which doesn't actually publish its own daily case numbers, disputed the CDC's numbers. According to the health department's Twitter account, the state had only logged 21,500 cases on August 6, 19,567 cases on August 7, and 15,319 on August 8. The health department claimed that the CDC had split three days' worth of new case totals across only two days in error.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/florida-is-ablaze-with-covid-19-and-its-case-data-reporting-is-a-hot-mess/
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I know du loves it some region bashing, but people, this never stays in one region.
I don’t remember NY being demonized as they lost so many last year. Sad, just sad. 
