Seems suspect that Florida has so many more infections than TX

[captain queeg]

Yet a fraction of their deaths. I know, infections precede deaths by a few weeks but this pattern seems to have been going for awhile.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I really don't believe anything reported by either State. nt

They've politicized the process to deal with the virus....why should we believe they are reporting facts now?

[Murphyb849]

3. Me either.

[Jarqui]

2. There are volumes of Florida articles making the case

that DeSatan has been messing with the data

[SCantiGOP]

6. In the early days of the pandemic

Florida was not complying with CDC reporting guidelines by not listing people who died there if they had another address; i.e., a New Yorker who got sick while visiting his condo in FL and died would not be reported.

[stillcool]

4. reminds me of that saying...

that numbers don't lie. Boy was that a crock

[questionseverything]

5. It's the people reporting the numbers that lie

[Skittles]

7. DeSantis is beating Abbott at who-can-hump-Trump-the-hardest

[dweller]

8. They'll never

match Missouri …

You just need a coroner with a little creative license

✌🏻

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. That's why in the long run, looking at excess deaths will be the most useful measure.

Not all excess deaths will be from Covid. Those who know a lot more about these things can reasonably well figure out what the what number of the excess deaths should be counted.

Keep in mind that a hundred years on, there's still a huge range of estimates of how many died in the 1918 Influenza pandemic.

And chances are China is vastly under reporting their Covid. For one thing, they have not updated the total tests in at least two weeks. Perhaps they're following Trump's advice about just not testing, and by magic the disease goes away.

India is another country that is likewise vastly under reporting their cases.

[GoodRaisin]

10. Don't know how many deaths there are but hospitals in several states are

reaching capacity as being reported in M$M. So deaths are going to follow. Interesting that Fox News isn't covering the hospital capacity issues. I guess their audience doesn't even know their hospital beds are filling up. Once there are no ICU beds the deaths will really take off.