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COVID-19 Check-in 2.0
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Dang it...
I was hoping someone was gonna post the chart or graph or article that said all this over...
All sources report all positives and negatives each day. They do not report new cases. FLDOH for yesterday (per todays's report) got 14,159 positive results statewide but only show 10,328 NEW CASES. they take out the repeat positives. If not why are the positives and Cases so different! The daily tally is not the numbers reported, they cleanse it first to take out repeat tests of the same people, In other words someone positive last week for the first time was reported as a case. If he tests positive in a follow up test yesterday he is shown as a positive in that day's testing report but not reported as a new case. There were 3,831 such individuals yesterday. That's why positives = 14,159 on the daily test report but only 10,328 Cases reported to CDC (or replacement org) for yesterday.
Not telling you how to mod.....I realize it's a thankless job.
But I suggest letting this thread go wherever it goes. I understand Dawgnation policy.
But frustrations are very high. Even if you don't allow another covid thread.......it will leak into other threads.
At least this keeps the frustration and political fighting from polluting other threads.
Just a thought.
Seems a small minority that can't seem to stay on the tracks. Would be a pity to loose this thread. I think pretty much all agree that most of the media ****. This is a great source of what people think and their experiences in the "real world".
@Kasey
This is my spreadsheet for yesterday's report (Thursday data as one day lag)
How does this tally with Nate's numbers?
Wasn't going to share this. Some will believe me....others won't......and it will get DVs.
I've shared on here that one of my dad's golfing buddies owns a funeral home. He has all kinds of covid stories.
On Wednesday evening another member of the club was in a head on car accident and died during surgery.....and he tested positive for Covid.
Cause of death......Covid. The funeral home directors are notified of all Covid deaths.
Nobody on Dawgnation knows me. You don't know my character or personality. So it probably does very little to say that I'm an honest man with integrity.....buy I am.
Choose to believe me or not.....but how covid deaths are reported is a problem.
I'm not suggesting that people can't die from Covid......but we'll never know how many people under the age of 70 actually died because of covid. But the number is probably very small.
Tex, was it listed as the actual cause death or was the funeral home operator just notified that he was positive?
Nate Silver uses covidtracking.com for his daily tweets. I've been using it lately as you can look at daily data for each state.
You might be able to fill in some data on your spreadsheets for data on the states you only recently started tracking. Looks like they get their info from each states DOH dashboard and they supply screenshots from each day to show where the numbers come from.
Actual cause of death.
IMO yes. I don't think that you should test the same worker 5 days a week and show it as 5 negatives each week. The CDC guidelines that the numbers reported (cumulative) doesn't count repeat positives nor repeat negatives. The individuals that are repeat tested would be reported as neg/pos based on their latest test. If someone is -----+ they would be 1 negative until they became a case with the last positive. Furthermore if that person then tests negative twice they become "recovered". So if --+-+--. they were in the negative , switched to the positive and became a case. They remained an active case until the last test (2nd negative) at which time they were considered recovered. They did not switch from active to recovered to new case in the middle with the +-+ it just stayed active.
Long winded but hope that clarifies.
Would be interesting to see stats on whether deaths by other causes show decreases.
Cringe...just absolutely despicable. No shortage of these stories yet...if you are willing to listen.... It’s mind blowing. If you are someone who trusts the “data” I feel sorry for you at this point. Isn’t there some sort of checks and balances in place? I wonder if it’s... “hey, lets see if this will work (marking COVID cause of death, COVID positive without a test) and whether or not we get challenged on it?” Nonetheless, they are counted as “data” until somebody reverses it, right? And how is that even possible now after months and months of this? Never going to happen. Yet the BS “data” continues to drive policy decisions. What a waste of time to consume yourself with this garbage data.
Would you think that correct if the driver had a blood clot travel to his heart that caused the crash. Every time I hear a COD it's nearly always died due to complications from Covid. You need to stop thinking that everyone is corrupt. The ME has no reason to lie about the COD. He/she just uses their best judgement based on the forensic evidence. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Will do what I have to do. @YaleDawg knows the ground rules that were laid down. Out of respect for him I have let this continue......unless it gets way out of hand then the closed sign will be hung......
No doubt on your integrity, your are a mentor to our youth and our future, but almost 140,000 deaths in the U.S. is not small, even if some of those are not covid related....