@Billius27@mstdn.ca
Florida dumped data showing 751 COVID deaths on January 21st and I haven't seen a single mention of it anywhere.
@BE @Billius27 i thought they pretty much stopped tracking all of that back in 2020? It's one of the States that's kind of a black hole on the public health radar. I can't imagine the "official figures" are an accurate reflection.
@RebelGeek99 @Billius27@mstdn.ca
The state, as an entity, stopped tracking and giving regular updates. Hospitals are still required to put out some numbers.
In no way would I suspect that it's anywhere near complete, and I've talked quite a bit about this, but, there's a lot of places in Florida where there's breakdowns in reporting.
Each county has MEs that have to sign off on death certificates and they're often COVID deniers. From what I've heard locally many of them supposedly haven't signed off on a single COVID death certificate yet. Some hospitals, even, like my own local one, don't do any COVID tests at all anymore. Period. So they're a zero eternally.
All of that to say that if they dumped 751 in one day(and there are some numbers that trickle out from Florida every couple of weeks) it's almost certainly a lot more than that.
@RebelGeek99 @Billius27@mstdn.ca
Yeah, I've heard exactly that from healthcare workers.
I'm in an area where everyone's on septic and the hospital doesn't test. I just assume everyone else has COVID at all times.
@BE @Billius27 yeah. I've seen it first-hand where inpatients are presenting classic COVID symptoms and there's an organizational preference to ignore it. Wastewater is what the public health people are looking to for real-time infection data. I doubt we'll ever know the real death toll of the virus.