OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

Sorry, that's rough.

 

No, Florida did exactly that.

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Hmm, it loaded for me and I do not subscribe to the Miami Herald. Maybe they don't like dogs?

As the delta variant spreads through Florida, data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this could be the most serious and deadly surge in COVID-19 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

As cases ballooned in August, however, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline, an analysis of Florida data by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald found.

On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system, the Herald analysis showed. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 “new deaths” per day over the previous seven days.

The dramatic difference is due to a small change in the fine print. Until three weeks ago, data collected by DOH and published on the CDC website counted deaths by the date they were recorded — a common method for producing daily stats used by most states. On Aug. 10, Florida switched its methodology and, along with just a handful of other states, began to tally new deaths by the date the person died.

If you chart deaths by Florida’s new method, based on date of death, it will generally appear — even during a spike like the present — that deaths are on a recent downslope. That’s because it takes time for deaths to be evaluated and death certificates processed. When those deaths finally are tallied, they are assigned to the actual date of death — creating a spike where there once existed a downslope and moving the downslope forward in time.​

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Oregon man with 'long Covid' leaves hospital after 299 DAYS and says he struggles to breathe just walking across his living room

• Alex Castro, 44, of Sandy, Oregon, spent nearly 300 days in the hospital due to complications with COVID-19
• His hospital stay included 108 days on ECMO, a life-support machine that assists in circulating a person's blood
• An ICU nurse said Castro 'fought like an animal' to survive and doctors are considering it a success that he can even stand up anymore
• Castro once worked three jobs to support his family, but now cannot even walk across a room without losing his breathe
• A new study finds that a large amount of COVID-19 survivors have had their life disrupted - like Castro - due to a mysterious condition called long Covid

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...alized-299-days-complications-long-Coivd.html

 

This could be of interest in the 'is catching covid and recovering better than vaccination' discussion:

"Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection (95% confidence interval = 2.75–10.99)."
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