The Left is pushing a false ‘COVID deaths cover-up’ smear against Ron DeSantis

Washington Examiner ^ | 4 Sep, 2021 | Brad Polumbo

[MtnClimber]

Did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fiddle with the data to cover up rising COVID-19 deaths in his state? That’s the latest narrative that liberal media outlets , Democratic candidates , and other DeSantis critics are running with.

MSNBC’s headline blared, “'Cover-up': Florida's MAGA governor in COVID scandal on death count data.” The network’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber accused DeSantis of “misleading the public” and “downplaying” the crisis. Meanwhile, the anti-Trump advocacy organization the Lincoln Project accused the governor of “orchestrating a cover-up — in an effort to hide how badly he has failed Florida.”

There’s just one problem with this grand narrative: It isn’t true.

The controversy stems from a recent report in the left-leaning Miami Herald, ominously titled, “Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths.”

“As cases ballooned in August … the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline,” the newspaper reported. It quoted multiple critics and generally painted the statistical change as nefarious in nature. The dramatically framed article provided fuel for DeSantis’s critics and was echoed throughout liberal media and online circles.

But if you keep reading, buried many paragraphs down in the story are a few key facts. First, the supposed “cover-up” simply involves changing from recording deaths as they are reported to recording deaths under the date they specifically occurred. Whether one form of reporting is better than the other is something for experts to squabble over. But neither constitutes a “cover-up,” and neither is inaccurate. Indeed, the article contains a quote from an expert defending the change.

[MtnClimber]

This fabrication of news shows that the left has no negative information on DeSantis.

[Skywise]

Same fake news story they’ve been pushing since this started and propagated in part by the leftist activist who was actually in charge of running the numbers and SHE was the one screwing up the data.

[forgotten man]

Florida is not the only place where the Democrats are calling anybody who disagrees with them a “murderer” or a “killer.” It is happening here in California.

[BrexitBen]

Have Joy Reid and Rachel Madcow retracted their touting the bogus story, in Rolling Stone, about the Oklahoma hospital being overrun with patients “ ODing on horse paste, or de-wormer “.

Rolling Stone has issued a retraction. How about MSDNCCP ?

[Sarah Barracuda]

They go after DeSantis because he is a threat to their commie agenda..gee they didnt mind deaths when it involved Cuomo and others..they were fine with it, old people being forced back into nursing homes to rot with other covid positive patients in order to kill them off..the left was happy with that because it was win/win

[who knows what evil?]

Hysteria and hyperbole oh my!

[Sarah Barracuda]

I bet Joyless Reid and Horseface Maddow have PLENTY and I mean PLENTY of HCQ and Ivermectin in their homes if they need it..Joy Reid is a total fraud, I saw her blog, no way does someone who writes like that change their whole view the next day..she is a total scam artist

[BrexitBen]

Joyless Reid and Mzzz. Madcow are just regurgitating what the DNCCP tells them.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

Media should have been more adept at hiding televised coverage of football games across the South Saturday night, showing hundreds of thousands of football fans packing stadiums, where...gasp...gasp...no one was wearing a face mask.

Then, it would have been easier to sell the fake news they push re DeSantis

[rlmorel]

Where does the Left find time to do this, in between the

• Ivermectin horse medicine overdose cases clogging up intensive care units "news"
  
  
• The ICU beds are overflowing due to the unvaccinated "news"
  
  
• Conservatives against vaccination who recant on their deathbed and say they were wrong about the vaccination and wish they had got it before they died "news"?

Where do they find the time?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

It is really no big deal to count covid deaths based upon death certificates vs opinions as to cause of death sent by hospitals each day.

But anything the media can conjure up against DeSantis will be done.

The media is livid that DeSantis has made Regeneron available to anyone in Florida who has a positive covid test or has been exposed to someone with covid.

Just wait until DeSantis starts handing out hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and the medias heads will explode.

The media is going nuts in their attempt to stop all covid therapeutics.

[Libloather]

No, no, no. Cuomo covered it up. That story lasted a week - tops.

[TBP]

Not enough people have died in Florida to serve their purposes, so DeSantis must be “covering up” hte “real number.”

Especially since they’ve been flooding Florida with infected illegals to get a lot more Floridians to die.

The Party of Compassion.

[kvanbrunt2]

Not just the story but the repeat of the story as true on down the food chain.

[italianquaker]

Another nothing muffin

[dsrtsage]

I wonder what the real number of infected illegal aliens being used as bioweapons against DeSantis really is.

[sten]

WHY were the infection numbers skyrocketing in JULY ... the month of lowest tourism?

Simple. The biden administration had been shipping INFECTED illegals from the Texas border to Florida.

45,000+ INFECTED illegals were shipped to Florida starting around March/April.

Why? Simple. To make the governor look bad while also trying to turn the state purple/blue by KILLING off many of the old folks living in Florida who typically vote red.

This was an OBVIOUS case of BIO-BOMBING the state similar to Cuomo and the elderly residents in NY state care facilities (15k+ dead) or Andrew Jackson and the smallpox blankets given to native Americans.

In Florida, the low point of infection was ~122k around July 7th. As of yesterday, Sep 2rd, that number has risen to 943,668... an increase of 821,000+

As these are INFECTIONS, meaning in need of medical assistance, at least 5% of these will not make it. The exact number depends on the age of those infected.

Either way, 40,000+ will have died as a DIRECT result of the actions of the biden administration. This is criminal and people should be in jail.