Daily Mail: The rise and rise of COVID-19: Florida sets ominous record of 15,300 new infections - the highest single-day total for any state - while three Arizona teachers who shared classroom catch the virus and one dies as its morgues hit 97% capacity
* Florida set record of 15,300 new infections, the most by any state in a single day, recent data has revealed
* Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd who worked at Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years, died June 26
* Byrd, 61, had been hospitalized a little less than two weeks before her death, according to her husband, Jesse
* Arizona health officials have reported more than 122,467 cases of the coronavirus with at least 2,237 deaths
* Some Arizona morgues have hit 97 per cent capacity as officials look to bring in refrigerated morgue trucks
* The United States as a whole has recorded an additional 61,000 confirmed cases within the last 24 hours
* Meanwhile, as virus rages out of control in parts of US, New York is offering an example after taming the virus
* Gov Andrew Cuomo has offered advice, ventilators, masks, gowns and medicine to states dealing with spikes in cases and hospitalizations
Florida has set a record for new infections after reporting 15,300 coronavirus cases on Sunday - the highest single-day total for any state - as three Arizona teachers who shared the same classroom catch the virus before one died from the illness while some of the state's morgues near capacity.
Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, who worked at the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years, died on June 26, according to CNN.
She had been hospitalized a little less than two weeks before her death. Arizona health officials have reported more than 122,467 cases of the virus with at least 2,237 deaths.
Two other teachers, Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings, were also diagnosed with the virus last month. They both shared a summer classroom with Byrd and said they are still struggling with the effects of COVID-19.
All three teachers wore PPE, which included masks and gloves. They also used hand sanitizer and made sure to social distance, but they still ended up getting sick.
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WNU Editor: US death rates are not spiking as much as many were fearing at the beginning of this month. But this massive increase in cases is a worrisome development. One of my cousins has two of her kids living in Miami. I just finished talking to one of them, and he tells me that many young people are not taking this disease seriously. I told him the same thing is happening in Montreal where I live. Fortunately, new cases are still very low in my city.
More News On The Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In The U.S. State Of Florida
As US grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase -- AP
Florida sets one-day record with over 15,000 new COVID cases, more than most countries -- Reuters
Florida shatters largest single-day record of coronavirus infections in US while world sees cases spike -- FOX News
Coronavirus: Florida sets new state daily case record of 15,299 -- BBC
Florida shatters US record for new single-day Covid-19 cases -- CNN
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The "record" should surprise no one. The contact tracers of whom the "experts" told us we needed are very busy, very well funded, and very well supported. If America tests and contact traces like a normal country, cases and percentage positive tests drop massively. The reason cases are still low in "your city" is because your city leaders are behaving like normal humans!!
I find the comment that young people are not taking the virus seriously the most telling of all that I have read over the months. The invincible syndrome.
Puzzling is how the three teachers contracted the virus despite their caution. I would think they are representative of many yet they get it despite their efforts to be safe. Obviously there is more that we have yet to learn about this speck of an organism.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/data-suggest-floridas-record-breaking-coronavirus-days-may-have-been-0
Florida health officials appear to have inflated recent record coronavirus case numbers there by as much as 30%, according to an analysis of data released by the state's Department of Health.
U.S. health officials have been warning for several weeks that COVID-19 case trends in Florida are pointing to a possible looming catastrophe as the state records ever-increasing numbers of the disease. After several months of flat infection rates, positive case results in Florida began rising slowly in mid-June before beginning a steep climb near the end of the month.
Deaths in the state have remained largely flat over that time period, leaving experts struggling to explain why surging case rates have not resulted in an uptick in mortality. One possibility, according to data provided by the state itself, is that the new case numbers regularly posted by Florida health officials have been significantly inflated in recent weeks.
'Chart date' vs 'event date'
At issue is how Florida quantifies its COVID-19 data. The state's dashboard presents new cases in a relatively straightforward manner, presenting a bar chart that displays "new cases of residents by day."
Yet the state's wealth of coronavirus data is significantly more multifaceted than that. An ArcGIS data manager allows users to access detailed, cross-referential data readouts for all of the state's confirmed coronavirus cases, including the sex, age group, region and "origin" of each case, among numerous other metrics.
Two of those data options are "case date" and "event date." The state in a Department of Health document defines the case date as the "date used to create bar chart in the Dashboard," while the "event date" is defined as the "date symptoms started, or if that date is unknown, date lab results were reported to the DOH."
That subtle distinction means that many cases posted to the dashboard may not meaningfully align with the date on which they were posted. Users may thus be misled into believing that case dates on the chart represent timely data, recent cases from which current trends may be reliably derived. However, charted case dates may in fact represent "events" — positive tests or illness-onset dates — that came weeks or even months before.
A charted display of both of those metrics indicates as much. Data show that the state was apparently undercounting thousands of cases between early and mid-June, after which through the end of June and into early July it began posting what were presumably the backlogged cases it had missed in the prior weeks.
After June 20, the state had several skyrocketing case days approaching 10,000 "new" cases; the number of event-date cases on those days was lower sometimes by 25%. On the state's highest-charting day so far, July 4, officials posted around 11,400 cases; the "event date" metric indicates a little over 8,000 cases on that day, about 30% less than the figure posted on the dashboard and cited in nationwide media outlets.
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State officials give conflicting responses
Though the Department of Health clearly ties "event dates" to the onset of symptoms in many cases, state health department representatives gave a series of conflicting responses when questioned about the matter.
Asked about the difference between chart dates and event dates, a department official said in an email to Just the News: "Event date will be updated as more information is gathered about the case. For instance, we would not know the person’s onset date when we received the lab result."
"The county interviews the individual and determines their onset date," the official added, "so the 'event date' would change."
Further queries seeking clarification on the state's data-gathering practices were eventually met with a reply from Alberto Moscoso, the director of the health department's Office of Communications.
"Epidemiologists collect information that informs the Department of Health of an individual’s symptoms, contacts and location of where they may have acquired COVID-19," he told Just the News.
"The first date of entry in answer to any question, COVID-related or not, is designated the event date," he continued. "The average period of incubation for COVID-19 is about 5 days, with the longest period of incubation being 14 days. It is important to keep this in mind as many event dates are listed months before the onset of the illness."
"Thus, the event date should be viewed as the first date noted as part of an epidemiological investigation, and not be interpreted as the onset date for COVID-19," he added. "In some situations, the event date may represent the onset of COVID-19 symptoms or when the individual tested positive."
Moscoso's claim that the event date should "not be interpreted as the onset date for COVID-19" appears to conflict at least partially with both the state's posted definition of the term as well as the earlier email from the health department suggesting that the onset of illness is tied directly to the "event date."
Just the News requested further clarification on these discrepancies; eventually the health department simply copied and pasted Mosoco's earlier reply and re-sent it.
Determining the onset date of symptoms is critical for public health officials in determining the current course of the pandemic, as unclear or misplaced data can scramble key epidemiological indicators used to determine a disease's path in a given community.
Data problems have cropped up in numerous other localities as well. The Texas health department, for instance, this week revealed that it lacks illness-onset data for nine out of every ten coronavirus infections reported in the state.
Los Angeles County, meanwhile, posted a record number of coronavirus cases on Tuesday of this week, but the state admitted that the huge increase came "in part" as a result of a few thousand backlogged cases.
Again, the ‘number of cases’ is useless data which you guys are discussing. The only item here that matters is the death rate which is NOT climbing; isn’t that strange? As someone is claiming that the case load is blowing up the death rate is flat!? Also, although sad, quit bringing up deaths of individuals to justify the same case data; unless you intend to discuss the deaths of other people that died for ‘non-COVID’ reasons as well.
Facts First: DeSantis' suggestion that Florida's caseload has somehow stabilized doesn't square with the data. Over the weekend it set a state record for the most cases reported in a single day (11,458) and Florida officials still have not provided statewide data on daily hospitalization numbers for the virus.
On Tuesday morning the state's Department of Health reported an increase of 7,347 cases, with 2,066 of those coming from Miami-Dade County. The report also showed a state record of 16.27% of all coronavirus tests coming back positive. That's more than double the national seven-day moving average, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
Before the steady rise in new coronavirus cases began in early June, the highest number of cases Florida had reported in a single day was 1,413 on April 17.
When it comes to hospital data for Covid-19 patients, Florida officials have still not released data on the daily number of hospitalizations, which is key to understanding coronavirus trends. The state government does provide cumulative hospitalization numbers but that data point doesn't show how many coronavirus patients are currently being treated.
the cases and death rate decline is readily available for an explanation if one uses decent sites for data
Much of the discussion has been about how unusual it is that the White House would leak campaign-style oppo research about Trump’s own top health official. But less attention has focused on how deranged it is that Fauci has become the enemy — that is, the target for counter-punching — in the first place.
Fauci has become the enemy, of course, because he has prioritized his efforts to understand a pandemic that has killed nearly 135,000 Americans and sickened millions over the imperative of protecting Trump politically at all costs.
Fauci’s efforts may have been flawed at times, but by all appearances they were undertaken in good faith. And that’s the cardinal sin here: Since handling a public health emergency in good faith requires a sincere — if sometimes tactful — effort to inform the public about it, this has inevitably put him in Trump’s crosshairs, because it has reflected badly on Trump.
It is a form of poetic justice that all this is revealed with new clarity by none other than the intense scrutiny that this ham-handed attack on Fauci has itself produced.
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