Another Florida hit piece.
Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny
New research published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who have died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the pandemic successfully.
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The issue was further complicated because
each state has its own death-counting methodology. “Some states classify a death as due to COVID if a positive molecular test was obtained, while other states allow the death to be classified as due to COVID if there is a suspicion that it was caused by COVID (even without a molecular test),” Weinberger wrote in an email to Yahoo News.
Polymerase chain reaction tests — another name for the molecular tests Weinberger referenced —
are the most reliable way to tell if a person, dead or living, has been infected with the coronavirus. <<<Total Lie
In the case of Florida, the researchers say, 4,924 excess deaths should have been counted as resulting from COVID-19 but for the most part were ruled as having been caused by something else, thus lowering Florida’s coronavirus fatality count. That’s possible because people who die from COVID-19
often have comorbidities, such as diabetes and asthma. That leaves some discretion for medical examiners, who have sometimes struggled with
conflicting science and been subject to political pressures during the pandemic. <<< Being forced to write down CV-19 as cause of death when it wasn't.