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How COVID-19 fatality reports are distorting the data on daily death rates
Just the News ^ | July 19, 2020 - 6:58am | Daniel Payne

Posted on 07/19/2020 7:26:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Arizona

The daily new death report often generates misleading sensationalist reports throughout the media. On July 7, for instance, the state recorded 117 "new deaths" on its dashboard. Calling that number a "record," CNN reported that Arizona that day reported "117 deaths from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours." Business Insider reported that Arizona recorded "its highest number of newly reported coronavirus deaths" on that day. News Break said the state on that date "recorded its highest single-day death toll."

Yet actual state data as of Saturday indicated that only 53 people are so far recorded as dying in the 24-hour period in question, 54% less than the "record" day touted in numerous headlines. Indeed, going by date of death, the most fatalities the state has ever recorded over 24 hours is 57, on June 30.

Florida

A similar problem was seen in Florida this week, when the state health department on Thursday announced 156 deaths in one 24-hour period. That number was touted as a frightening new record by media outlets such as CNN, the Miami Herald, NBC, the Orlando Sentinel, and numerous others.

Yet as of Saturday aftenroon, the actual number of deaths confirmed for that 24-hour period, per the state's dashboard, was just 58—roughly one-third the "record" that the state health department touted on its website.

The department on its website notes that "death data often has significant delays in reporting, so data within the past two weeks will be updated frequently." Indeed, the death counts have risen on the state's dashboard since Thursday, though only moderately so.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; data; fraud
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1 posted on 07/19/2020 7:26:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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In my state they tested an entire nursing home and declared 80% positive, the owners of the home called in an independent lab and they had NO positives.


2 posted on 07/19/2020 7:30:40 AM PDT by tiki (Obamagate)
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To: Hojczyk

They skew the numbers for the left hysteria narrative just like the crime statistics we will see from the lefts peaceful protesters, prison releases, rapes, robberies, assualts and murder. CRIME IS DOWN!


3 posted on 07/19/2020 7:33:42 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Hojczyk

Any coronavirus, even the common cold will test COVID pos. I keep telling my husband it wont kill him.. the double dose of bad genes leading up to a 5 way bypass will. He just might have a common cold at the time.


4 posted on 07/19/2020 7:35:29 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Hojczyk

How? Because ALL LIBERALS ARE LIARS

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 07/19/2020 7:38:47 AM PDT by afchief
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To: momincombatboots
Something the MAM and political opportunists won’t tell you...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282751

6 posted on 07/19/2020 7:39:37 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (AOC the bartender would have had to work on the second floor at Miss KittyÂ’s saloon...)
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To: Hojczyk

FEARPORN


7 posted on 07/19/2020 7:39:42 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: momincombatboots

Darn. MSM...


8 posted on 07/19/2020 7:40:10 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (AOC the bartender would have had to work on the second floor at Miss KittyÂ’s saloon...)
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To: Hojczyk

After watching Arizona’s official figures daily for a month or more, I conclude Arizona back-fills in deaths (and cases) from the previous 3 months. So “100 deaths” turns out to be “50 deaths today and 50 deaths spread out over the previous 100 days.”

Guess which one leads the news? Which one creates hysteria? And is it true that many health professionals - speaking as the husband of a nurse - are very liberal?

And good luck finding out if the death actually had ANYTHING to do with COVID!


9 posted on 07/19/2020 7:43:55 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Hojczyk

Kinda how blizzard’s and tropical storms are hyped?


10 posted on 07/19/2020 7:49:36 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Hojczyk
In both the Arizona and Florida cases, the shock headlines were accurate-those were the number of deaths reported in a 24 hour period. But they weren’t the number of deaths in that 24 hour period.

In both cases, deaths that occurred over the previous weeks were finally reported to the state all at once. As if to purposely provide the means for a shock headline?

11 posted on 07/19/2020 7:59:53 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Hojczyk
In my county in SW PA there have been 522 confirmed cases with 9 deaths.

The neighboring county, where I work has had 246 confirmed with 4 deaths.

Most, if not all of the deaths in my county were associated with 1 or 2 nursing homes after our mentally ill Secretary of Non Health; Dr Rachel "Don't Call Me Dick" Levine forced them to take infected patients.

No doubt more have died from seasonal flu.

7 month period.

12 posted on 07/19/2020 8:11:01 AM PDT by Eagles6
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...blizzard’s and tropical storms...
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A few days ago, I watched a Weather Channel clip about expected storms across the Upper Midwest. The young presenter was forcefully telling the audience they _must_ put warning apps on their phones, especially if they were camping in isolated areas because “winds this strong could flip your camper”. Scolding them over and over in a short 2-minute clip.

I bet she has never camped, never been out in the wilderness or even a small rural town. But she was sure trying to sound like an expert to scare folks.

Hint: we watch the skies. Cell phone reception is uneven and sometimes non-existent in the boonies. It can be dangerous, but people are situationally aware and there is usually adequate time to temporarily leave the isolated area.

I was struck by the way she barely controlled her hysteria and anger, as though campers are 5-year-olds.


13 posted on 07/19/2020 8:16:06 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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I was struck by the way she barely controlled her hysteria and anger,
= = = = = = = = = = =
The NEW NORM...

The ‘news reader’ also editorializes the ‘news’ discussing it with the other ‘accompanying idiots’.

Like the ‘newspaper’ USA Today is ‘hard to take’ when you grew up with 5 minutes news ‘flashes’ at the top of the hour and maybe on the half hour, local news may have gotten 10 mins twice a day and you relied on the UNBIASED reporting of the newspaper to get the ‘meat of it’.

Cable new and ‘news hours’ hastened the downfall and since they (sort of) went in depth, the newpaper became ‘old newz’ which then prompted ALL the media types to rush to be first VERY OFTEN having an incomplete or distorted report of the ‘breaking news’.

Then it got to
at 730 ‘break’ a promo comes on “Downtown fire kills 30 etc” details and film at 11 and that is/was the last you may have heard of it.

I gave up on TV news when they started telling you on Sunday what the Wednesday ‘NEWS’ broadcast would be about.

Today ‘they’ read the headline, never go below the fold and the papers can say what they want at the outset and put out the REAL facts at the end and get to skate because they did ‘correct’ the disinformation that was being spread but a good portion of the people never turned the page (Short ‘attention span?)


14 posted on 07/19/2020 8:25:51 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Hojczyk

When is AG Barr going to order investigations?


15 posted on 07/19/2020 8:31:22 AM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Makes perfect sense. Without the right gut bacteria you won't digest food properly. Some viruses are symbiotic too: https://www.popsci.com/our-viral-friends/
16 posted on 07/19/2020 8:43:42 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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17 posted on 07/19/2020 8:52:44 AM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: palmer

Thanks for the link!


18 posted on 07/19/2020 8:56:50 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (AOC the bartender would have had to work on the second floor at Miss KittyÂ’s saloon...)
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To: Hojczyk

I just posted this comment on another thread:

Trump administration seeking to block funding for CDC, contact tracing and testing in new relief bill: report
The Hill ^ | 07/18/20 | MARTY JOHNSON

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3866259/posts?page=56#56

The deaths are acompletely overblown too. Anyone who tests positive even if they die of something else, people who die and are not tested positive and had a stuffy nose, people who die and did not test positive but had a passing acquaintance with someone who was positive, someone who died without testing positive, no symptoms, and passed on the sidewalk someone who was a “probable/presumptive” case (ie friend of a positive”), random death certificates filled out with covid regardless of cause of death, rinse and repeat.

The evil house of cards is falling apart. People who’ve looked into this crap have known it for a long time, and thankfully it’s being made public finally.

It’s all about trying to make Trump look bad, make everyone terrified so they have to force mail in ballots all over the country, and thus steal the election.

That’s what it’s been about since the beginning. WHy did Pelosi and the other Demshevik maggots slam Trump for stopping flights from China? in January? Why did Pelosi invite everyone to Chinatown in February, and DeBlasio and other maggots in NYRC with signs “Stay Strong Wuhan” and “Don’t fear the virus, come celebrate the Chinese New Year” and on and on?

THEY WANTED IT TO SPREAD and knew about it beforehand. Gates had a big symposium in October entited something like “What if there was a coronavirs pandemic, what would we do” - invitation only. IIRC Fauci was there, and Gates and Fauci work with the CLinton Foundation “Global Health Initiative”.

Why were the Washington State covid restrictions written up with the ending date of Nov.5? Because the election will be over. Why are these Demshevik maggot governors pushing masks now when even the fake death numbers are lower and lower? Why do they prevent restaruants, churches, etcetc but praise and allow the “peaceful protest” riots? Why do they let thousands and thousands of criminals out of jail and then tell everyone to wear masks, right before the riots?

It’s all about destroying the economy, Americans’ rights and freedoms, and stealing the election. They’re trying to have the revolution they missed having in the late 60s and early 70s.

And we must never forget the covid patients FORCED into nursing homes! Thousands of Americans died because of this heinous crime. Against federgal guidelines and recognized heath practices! It was nothing short of murder, trying to gin up deaths to terrify everyone, and in the process get rid of elderly voters who are more likely to vote for Trump.

Also noteworthy is how the Demshevik maggot governors were all on the same page with the same message. This “pandemic” was a coordinated plan.


19 posted on 07/19/2020 9:14:49 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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And we must never forget the covid patients FORCED into nursing homes!


Something Dr Faux-chi has lauded, as a great model.

:-(


20 posted on 07/19/2020 9:23:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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