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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida COVID update: 799 deaths are added to tally over the past month- Miami Herald
Florida on Thursday reported 15,586 more COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with 799 deaths over the span of the pandemic, all but one of which occurred in the past month, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
The one-day jump in the number of reported cases and deaths comes amid a change in the way deaths and cases are counted. The change was implemented by the CDC last week, resulting in occasional one-day aberrations like the 799 deaths reported on Thursday.
The inclusion of the previously uncounted deaths is part of Floridas ongoing latest wave. It is the largest single-day increase in the tally in Florida COVID pandemic history.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253612503.html
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)MySideOfTown
(225 posts)But he can sure tell us how Regeneron stock is doing.
Takket
(21,625 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)They were also added on top of already reported deaths.
Takket
(21,625 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,454 posts)and found this -
And the reason I bring it up is that since I'm monitoring PA's and Philly's daily cases, yesterday became a sudden huge jump, both for state cases and the city's cases. I know coming off weekends there will be an artificially lower number due to how/when labs report and some labs are not operating on weekends, and then as the week progresses, larger tranches of results get reported, and by about Wednesday, you start getting a more stable number. But yesterday's numbers were pretty dramatically different from the day before -
PA on 8/18/21 - +2,332
PA on 8/19/21 - +3,451
PHL on 8/18/21 - +301
PHL on 8/19/21 - +787
So am guessing this may be part of the "change", with adjustments getting baked in, and whatever figures we get today (for yesterday) would start it back to normalizing I suppose (and hope is the case given this looks pretty rough )... A week ago, the city made note of of 8/12 & 8/13 numbers including back-filling with older cases.
gab13by13
(21,405 posts)what's the real Florida numbers? Those numbers may be getting closer.