U.S. shatters daily record for coronavirus infections with over 77,000 cases in a day https://t.co/pDn09gn3Xq— Reuters (@Reuters) July 17, 2020
Brazil coronavirus cases reach two million, doubling in less than a month https://t.co/jHXJQxoJft pic.twitter.com/gb1at3SIMh— Reuters (@Reuters) July 17, 2020
BREAKING: India's Health Ministry says the country has surpassed 1 million cases of the coronavirus. https://t.co/wbncfkcT4x— The Associated Press (@AP) July 17, 2020
Sudan & Egypt have renewed criticism as the reservoir behind the Nile dam fills up. Egypt says it's an existential threat, Ethiopia says it’s ending historical injustice. And still no deal. New video on why. @courtbembridge @briony_sowden @aishadoherty https://t.co/v8Ct1rmuYu pic.twitter.com/PsEiFBiZKG— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) July 16, 2020
🇨🇦 An investigation into #Canadian PM #JustinTrudeau's role in awarding a government contract to a charity that paid members of his family large sums of money has been extended to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, the country's ethics commissioner said https://t.co/OCxY2Fjms2 pic.twitter.com/TGnMk01N5V— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 16, 2020
U.S. shatters daily record for coronavirus infections with over 77,000 cases in a day https://t.co/pDn09gn3Xq— Reuters (@Reuters) July 17, 2020
Man I miss that weird green light pic.twitter.com/Hl1KLwueUr— Chonky God of Thunder (@donachaidh) July 17, 2020
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Any data on tests administered per capita?
How many test administered by countries of similar size?
Just more porn.
Leftists go berserk at protest, surround and smash up car — and it turns out driver has cerebral palsy
What the Media Won't Tell You About the United States' Coronavirus Case Fatality Rate
and yes, many or most European nations now open and running while our numbers continue to grow. The body count is BS. We were the most advanced nation and yet hospitals filled to capacity, numbers continue to spike. Why try to show we are not so bad and this and that SELECTED countries. We are bad. Period.And it is a failure of leadership as even Trump supporters now begin to recognize
Daily coronavirus record is shattered in US with more than 77,000 new cases while deaths surge by 943 with new highs in Florida and Texas
PJ as usual: bullshit...they claim the media ignored the reality of the virus when in fact it was Trump over and over who downplayed it
ABC News:
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Coronavirus: Five Reasons Public Health Experts Have Lost Credibility
Perspective | I’m a GOP governor. Why didn’t Trump help my state with coronavirus testing?
Larry Hogan
14-18 minutes
My wife, Yumi, and I stood on the tarmac, waiting in cloth masks, on the morning of April 18. Finally, a Boeing 777 landed and taxied to the far corner of Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. It was the first Korean Air flight ever to land at BWI, but it didn’t have a single passenger aboard. The crew of five had flown 14 hours, straight from Seoul.
“Congratulations, honey,” I told Yumi as the pilot turned off the engines. “You helped save a lot of lives.”
The plane was filled with 500,000 test kits for my state, where the coronavirus had already infected 12,308 Marylanders and killed 463 of them. The numbers were still climbing, and we would never be able to contain them without mass testing. “Anybody that wants a test can get a test,” President Trump had declared the previous month. In reality, only 2,252 Americans had been tested at that point in March. Across the country, my fellow governors were desperately pleading for help on testing. But in early April, Trump said it was the states’ job.
Yumi was born and raised in South Korea, a country that had, by then, erected a well-coordinated testing regime. So, with nowhere else to turn, Yumi and I asked President Moon Jae-in for help. He arranged the sale of a half-million test kits from LabGenomics, one of the world’s leading medical testing firms, for $9 million. It was a bargain considering the $2.8 billion in revenue we projected the pandemic would cost Maryland.
Now the kits had arrived. The crew members came down together, walked over and stopped six feet away. Yumi bowed, and the crew bowed in return. Following their lead, so did I. Then a caravan of Maryland National Guard trucks escorted by the Maryland State Police drove the tests from the airport to a refrigerated, secure warehouse at an undisclosed location. The federal government had recently seized 3 million N95 masks purchased by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. We weren’t going to let Washington stop us from helping Marylanders.
This should not have been necessary. I’d watched as the president downplayed the outbreak’s severity and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals. Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we’d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way, which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. I did the best I could for Maryland. Here’s what we saw and heard from Washington along the way.
[Anthony Fauci built a truce. Trump is destroying it.]
President Trump is joined by Vice President Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and members of the coronavirus task force for a briefing at the White House on Feb. 26. Early in the pandemic, Trump assured that the United States had the outbreak under control. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Trump’s first public utterance about the coronavirus set the tone for everything that followed. He was in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, after the first American diagnosis. “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” asked CNBC anchor Joe Kernen.
“We have it totally under control,” Trump responded unhesitatingly. “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” And off the president went for the next eight weeks. The rest of January and February were peppered with cheerful or sarcastic comments and tweets, minimizing the outbreak’s severity and the need for Americans to do much of anything.
"We were the most advanced nation and yet hospitals filled to capacity"
Actually we get reports on the radio the ICU beds every 1/2 hour. They are not filled to capacity.
So once again Frederick R fails.
The post at 8:07 is a classic loser move by a person with very little reasoning capacity.
Trump's outrageous refusal to lead is making the pandemic worse
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
9-11 minutes
(CNN)The United States just recorded more than 77,000 new cases of Covid-19, the most ever in a single day. But President Donald Trump wants to talk about dishwasher reform.
Trump's refusal to use his full powers of his office and the government to confront the worst domestic threat since World War II is looking more negligent, callous and politically self-defeating with each virus ravaged day that passes.
Not only is Trump refusing to act in a manner appropriate to the magnitude of the emergency, he is using the country's loudest megaphone in a way almost guaranteed to make it worse, from presiding over a White House campaign to discredit the lifelong work of Dr. Anthony Fauci -- a new front in his war on science and truth -- to undermining efforts by local officials to convince people to wear masks to slow the spread of the disease.
Trump's intransigence is more notable since he's happy to use presidential power -- often in an anti-constitutional way -- in pursuit of personal and political gain. For instance, in coercing Ukraine to interfere in the election and in commuting the jail term of his political dirty trickster Roger Stone.
This week, as states such as Florida, Texas and Arizona have set records for coronavirus infections and intensive care units and morgues have filled up, has exposed the willful blindness of a White House that seems bio-sealed from the reality of the pandemic.
"We believe this President has great approval in this country. His historic Covid response speaks for itself," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Thursday, encapsulating the bizarre parallel universe of an administration that thinks one of the most disastrous government failures of the modern age is a roaring political success.
McEnany on Thursday praised US testing and the push for vaccines and therapeutics -- which have as much to do with the innovation of the US pharmaceutical industry as anything Trump has done. The US still lacks a functioning national test and trace program, still cannot properly equip all medical workers with protective gear and is losing badly to the virus five months into the fight.
His aides celebrate his decision to halt travel to some travelers from China and for prioritizing the manufacture of ventilators months ago. Such steps were important, but with hindsight have proven less significant than they appeared at the time. More importantly they are doing little to quell the vicious resurgence of the virus across most of the country. And boasting about ventilators seems perverse when thousands of Americans are dying anyway.
"The President has made so many bad executive decisions," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Thursday.
"Observing his behavior, I have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. All of the answers are there. The scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, sanitation can stop the spread of this virus. And yet the President continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us.
US trails its peers in fighting the virus
Trump and Fauci speak but Trump's attention remains elsewhere
A coronavirus patient in Anahuac was flown by helicopter to a hospital in El Campo — 120 miles away — because closer facilities could not take him.
Ambulances are waiting up to 10 hours to deliver patients to packed Hidalgo County emergency rooms.
And short-staffed hospitals in Midland and Odessa have had to turn away ailing COVID-19 patients from rural West Texas facilities that can’t offer the care they need.
As the tally of coronavirus infections climbs higher each day, Texas hospitals are taking extraordinary steps to make space for a surge of patients. Some facilities in South Texas say they are dangerously close to filling up, while hospitals elsewhere are taking precautionary measures to keep their numbers manageable.
Doctors warn of shortages of an antiviral drug that shows promise for treating COVID-19 patients. And epidemiologists say the state’s hospitals may be in for a longer, harder ride than places like New York, where hospitals were stretched to capacity in the spring and some parked refrigerated trailers outside to store bodies of people who died from COVID-19.
“It used to [be that] if one hospital got kind of overwhelmed … you would start transferring out ICU patients to other facilities that had ICU beds available,” said Dr. Robert Hancock, president of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians. “And there really is none of that now, because everybody’s in the same boat and they’re struggling to get their own patients admitted.”
Cases of the new coronavirus have surged in Texas since Memorial Day weekend at the end of May, one month after Gov. Greg Abbott allowed a phased reopening of businesses. In June, Abbott scaled back parts of that plan, first pausing elective procedures in the state’s biggest cities in an attempt to conserve hospital capacity for COVID-19 patients, then ordering bars to close and capping restaurant occupancy at 50%.
Last week, he expanded the ban on elective procedures to more than 100 counties across broad swaths of the state, a sign of the increasing urgency of the virus’ toll on Texas hospitals. Then he warned that if the trend continues, he might order another economic lockdown.
And more classic BS from the copy and paste pro at 8:14. At the opposite end of e-Sports, they have an Olympics for people like you.
And more BS from parrot at 8:15.
Parrot forgets or chooses to forget what the expert Fauci was saying to Trump and the public in January.
Parrot also chooses to forget that Trump banned travel to and from China.
So many people in Academia have taken Chinese money that I wonder if Parrot has as well. That chump really has never taken China seriously as a threat. He might mau mau a few words now and again, but really, he blows Russia and other things out of proportion to China.
"This is a ludicrous goal because – like stopping the spread of the common cold or influenza – it is nearly impossible. "
1.) Can Parrot refute the above statements?
Similarly, “finding a cure” became a common refrain, despite the fact that there may never be a good vaccine or antiviral for coronavirus.
2.) Does parrot believe we need to lockdown until a vaccine is found?
Parrot believes in medicine and in science and not in trump nor in magic nor in wishful thinking nor in bullshit denial.
where social distancing and masks are worn, virus recedes. Not by chance then that Walmart, Target, CVS etc are now requiring masks.
When you are told "the media won't tell you" you know you are dealing with horseshit
coronavirus kept surging in hot spots around the U.S. on Thursday, with one city in South Carolina urging people to pray it into submission, a hospital in Texas bringing in military medical personnel and morgues running out of space in Phoenix.
Record numbers of confirmed infections and deaths emerged again in states in the South and West, with hospitals stretched to the brink and fears worldwide that the pandemic’s resurgence is only getting started.
Texas reported 10,000 new cases for the third straight day and 129 additional deaths. The state has seen a third of its more than 3,400 total COVID-19 fatalities in the first two weeks of July alone.
Florida reached another ominous record, with 156 virus deaths, and health officials reported a staggering 13,965 new cases.
South Carolina confirmed 69 deaths, more than double any other day. In Louisiana, where officials thought they had contained the virus earlier this year only to become a hot spot again, it’s averaged more than 2,000 new confirmed infections a day over the past week.
Many of the governors leading states with the highest rising numbers had refused to mandate masks in public or prevented local officials doing so. While a number of them have reversed course — including Arkansas’ Republican governor — and at least 25 states now have mask rules, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp banned cities and counties from requiring face coverings and then sued Atlanta to prevent the city from defying his order.
Georgia’s capital and 14 other cities had ordered masks be worn, but the Republican governor has maintained that no local directive can be more or less restrictive than his statewide mandates.
“How can we take care of our local needs when our state ties our hands behind our back and then says, ‘Ignore the advice of experts?’” Savannah Mayor Van Johnson told reporters. He later added: “If you don’t want to protect us, then allow us the opportunity to protect ourselves.”
Arizona, meanwhile, has been so hard hit by the virus, the medical examiner’s office in metro Phoenix has gotten portable storage coolers and ordered more to handle an influx of bodies — reminiscent of New York City at the height of the pandemic there earlier this year.
The Arizona agency’s regular morgue storage was 63% full Thursday. Marcy Flanagan, executive director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, said many funeral homes are at capacity and unable to accept more bodies.
In Texas, the rising numbers are hitting big cities like Houston as well as smaller communities along the Mexico border. This month, Hidalgo County, about 220 miles (354 kilometers) south of San Antonio on the border, has reported more deaths than Houston’s Harris County.
Dr. Ivan Melendez, Hidalgo County’s public health authority, said it’s not uncommon for the body of a COVID-19 patient to lay on a stretcher for 10 hours before it can be removed in the overcrowded hospitals where intensive care space is running short.
“Before someone gets a bed in the COVID ICU unit, someone has to die there,” Melendez said.
Elsewhere in the second-largest state, health officials in San Antonio also turned to refrigerated trailers to store the dead, and soldiers prepared to take over a COVID-19 wing of a Houston hospital.
An 86-person Army team of doctors, nurses and support staff was setting up a nursing station at United Memorial Medical Center and expected to begin treating up to 40 patients in the coming days.
Some of the soldiers from around the country wore their uniforms. Others wore scrubs affixed with strips of surgical tape that had their ranks, names and medical titles.
“This facility, working with the United States military, is something that we asked for,” said U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, standing near the soldiers as they worked. “We have exhausted medical personnel that we’re so grateful to, but we didn’t have enough.”
Last week, we saw Trump score his worst ratings yet in an ABC News/Ipsos poll. This week he's hit bottom in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal and Quinnipiac University polls.
But perhaps what is most surprising, there are real signs that Trump's base is leaving him on the issue of the coronavirus.
Trump's coronavirus approval rating with Republicans is dropping below 80% in the average poll. You see that well in the ABC News/Ipsos poll (78%) and the Quinnipiac poll (79%). Trump's overall approval rating, as measured by Gallup, regularly has hit 90% since the beginning of 2018 and has never been lower than 85%.
Trump's numbers look even worse when you examine where he is with groups that make up that base: whites without a college degree and rural voters.
Whites without a college degree and rural voters went for Trump by around a 30-point margin (depending on the survey) as a group in 2016.
Among whites without a college degree, Trump's approval rating on coronavirus is an average of the ABC News/Ipsos and Quinnipiac polls is just 50%. That matches his disapproval rating. In other words, Trump's doing no better than even among what is supposed to be a bedrock group.
The numbers are no better for him among rural voters. In an average of the ABC News/Ipsos and Quinnipiac polls, his approval rating is at 48% among rural voters. His disapproval stands at 50%. Again, you want to be running up the score with base groups that voted for you by around 30 points in 2016. Trump's just running even here.
Now, there was no reason it had to be this way for Trump. Back in early April, Trump was getting strong ratings from all of these groups in his base.
He was averaging a 90% approval rating in the ABC News/Ipsos and Quinnipiac University polls when it came to his coronavirus performance.
He was well into the 60s with both whites without a college degree and rural voters in both polls.
What we've seen is that his base is clearly running away with him because they judge his performance over the last few months to be negative.
The big question with an election in the fall is whether these voters are merely saying they disapprove of Trump on the coronavirus but are still going to vote for him.
There are certainly some members of his base who are never going to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, even though they dislike Trump's handling of coronavirus.
Still, there are signs that Trump's coronavirus performance is hurting him even against Biden.
Trump has just a 75-point lead among Republicans against Biden in the Quinnipiac poll. He wants that to be at least 80 to 85 points, as it was in 2016. Biden has an 86-point lead among Democrats in the same poll. This mirrors other national polling showing that Biden is doing better among Democrats than Trump is doing among Republicans.
Trump's ahead by a mere 13 points among whites
Parrot believes in medicine and in science and not in trump nor in magic nor in wishful thinking nor in bullshit denial.
Parrot answered neither question #1 or question #2.
Trump used hydroxychloroquine. Europe is still using hydroxychloroquine. Trump said it might be a very effective treatment for some. Other people, nefarious people, wanted for their to be no hope, so immediately dismissed the drug going against science.
Still seeing not many people dying, where I live. I have not even heard of a LTC patient die in the past 2 or 3 weeks.
Of course we have where I live we have not had street riots,looting and the generic Democrat Party stuff.
Lots of people with their panties on backwards here. We’re at the lake this weekend spending quality time with people and in pools. I see NO sick people and NO one is talking scared. No one is wearing masks either. MAGA!!
Parrot does not bother answering moronic questions. I long ago got well beyond that sort of time waster.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, governors have generally received better marks for the way they’ve handled the crisis than President Trump has. However, new polling suggests that may be changing, especially for Republican governors in states where the number of coronavirus cases has spiked in recent weeks.
Gallup recently found that Americans in the 26 states governed by Republicans are souring on their leaders’ approach to the public health crisis, while sentiment remains steadily positive among residents of the 24 states governed by Democrats. In fact, over the past month, the share of respondents who agreed that their governor cared about the safety and health of their community fell by 8 points, from 61 percent to 53 percent, in states where a Republican is governor; opinion in Democratic-run states hovered around 65 percent, despite some movement week to week.
And on the question of how clearly governors were communicating their plans to address the coronavirus, the GOP also got low marks. Among respondents in Republican-run states, just 43 percent said their governor offered a clear plan, down from 54 percent about a month ago. Meanwhile, 58 percent of respondents in Democratic-run states said that their governor was communicating clearly, which was nearly identical to the share who said so in early June.
Gallup isn’t the only pollster to find GOP leaders getting lower scores for the way they’re dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Change Research’s polling of six battleground states found especially poor numbers for Republican governors in two states where the number of coronavirus cases surged in the first half of July: Florida and Arizona. In Change’s polling, 57 percent disapproved of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s handling of the outbreak, and a whopping 71 percent disapproved of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s response. Additional polling in Arizona and Florida second these findings. OH Predictive Insights found that opinion of Ducey’s approach went from a net positive in June (59 percent approved, 37 percent disapproved) to a net negative in July (35 percent approved, 63 percent disapproved). Likewise, surveys by CBS News/YouGov found 53 percent of Floridians said DeSantis was doing a somewhat or very bad job and 62 percent of Arizonans said the same of Ducey.
Not every Republican governor’s pandemic-response ratings are underwater, however. Some, in fact, have sterling numbers. In late June, a survey from the University of New Hampshire found Gov. Chris Sununu had a 78 percent approval rating for his handling of the virus. Considering Sununu is up for reelection this November, his response could help him win another two years in office. Meanwhile, in Ohio, 77 percent of respondents in a late-June Quinnipiac University poll approved of Gov. Mike DeWine’s performance. And in Massachusetts, another late-June survey from Suffolk University found 81 percent approved of Gov. Charlie Baker’s handling of the outbreak.
What these three governors have in common is the coronavirus hasn’t been surging in their states recently as much as it has in Arizona or Florida, but that doesn’t explain everything.
New poll says two thirds of Americans distrust what Donald Trump says about coronavirus as his approval rating on crisis falls to all-time low
Approval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus is just 38 per cent, with 60 per cent disapproval
His approval was at 46 per cent in May
Just 34 per cent place a great or good deal amount of Trust in Trump
Sixty four percent trust him not so much
Approval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus is just 38 per cent,
Newsweek editor said the MSM is worth 15 percentage points. So, you are pointing out the fruits of a partisan press and thumping your chest over it like the God damned fool that you are.
Parrot's panties are on backwards and he can't answer questions. He is in pain.
They’re Lying to You… FLORIDA: Motorcycle Crash Listed as Coronavirus Death
www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-questions-raised-after-fatal-motorcycle-crash-listed-as-covid-19-death
It is like many of us said last March and April. Corona will sky rocket and other causes of death will mysteriously go low.
(CNN)An unpublished document prepared for the White House coronavirus task force and obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom, recommends that 18 states in the coronavirus "red zone" for cases should roll back reopening measures amid surging cases.
The "red zone" is defined in the 359-page report as "those core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) and counties that during the last week reported both new cases above 100 per 100,000 population, and a diagnostic test positivity result above 10%."
The report outlines measures counties in the red zone should take. It encourages residents to "wear a mask at all times outside the home and maintain physical distance." And it recommends that public officials "close bars and gyms" and "limit social gatherings to 10 people or fewer," which would mean rolling back reopening provisions in these places.
The report comes despite President Donald Trump's insistence that states reopen and a push to send the nation's children back to school, even as cases increase.
"Now we're open, and we want to stay open and we will stay open. We're not closing. We'll put out the fires as they come out," Trump said at a White House event earlier this month.
The following 18 states are in the red zone for cases: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
More than 940 deaths reported in one day as US coronavirus cases shatter another record
The report says the following 11 states are in the red zone for test positivity: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Washington. The 11 states in the red zone for test positivity are also in the red zone for cases, with the exception of Washington state.
One of the states that is in the red zone for both cases and test positivity, Georgia, is currently embroiled in a political fight with its largest city. Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp filed a lawsuit over Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' mandate on masks in her city Thursday. He claimed it violated his emergency orders prohibiting local leaders from adding to the state's requirements to protect against coronavirus.
The task force report specifically includes a recommendation that Georgia "mandate statewide wearing of cloth face coverings outside the home."
Asked about the task force report, Bottoms told CNN she had not been in touch with the task force.
"I had not heard from them, but again, the people that I'm listening to are the scientists and our health care professionals," she said during an appearance on CNN's "New Day."
Devin O'Malley, spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence and the task force, didn't dispute the document's authenticity, and claimed the report showed "encouraging signs" amid the pandemic.
And the copy and paste artists strikes again @ 11:37
I wonder about that thesis. Worthy of a Joe Biden effort?
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-questions-raised-after-fatal-motorcycle-crash-listed-as-covid-19-death
ORLANDO, Fla. - A person who died in a motorcycle accident was added to Florida’s COVID-19 death count, according to a state health official.
FOX 35 News found this out after asking Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino whether two coronavirus victims who were in their 20s had any underlying conditions. One of his answers surprised us.
“The first one didn’t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident,” Pino said.
Dr. Pino was asked if the man’s data was removed.
“I don’t think so. I have to double-check,” Pino said. “We were arguing, discussing, or trying to argue with the state. Not because of the numbers -- it’s 100…it doesn’t make any difference if it's 99 -- but the fact that the individual didn’t die from COVID-19…died in the crash. But you could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash. I don’t know the conclusion of that one.”
There are still two people in their 20s on Orange County’s data list for coronavirus deaths.
So is this a contradiction to how the state says it’s counting deaths?
To follow this investigation download the FOX 35 News App.
Earlier this week, the Florida Department of Health sent FOX 35 News a statement that attempted to clarify that a "COVID death" is determined if, "COVID19 is listed as the immediate or underlying cause of death, or listed as one of the significant conditions contributing to death. Or, if there is a confirmed COVID-19 infection from a lab test – and the cause of death doesn’t meet exclusion criteria – like trauma, suicide, homicide, overdose, motor-vehicle accident, etc."
“The only thing that I can say to people is the data I provide you with is the data we consume from the state. We offer you the best data that we have,” Dr. Pino said.
Dr. Pino tells us the medical examiner has to certify all COVID-19 deaths. We also reached out to that office and haven’t heard back.
note: Florida no longer provides accurate information on virus numbers and has not for some time now
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