Let's post this once again. This, of course, is just one of several studies showing under-counting of COVID deaths in Florida by rural counties. Maybe you should know what you are talking about before you pipe up and once again are shown to be a complete fool. A new day.... a new study showing Florida greatly under-counted COVID deaths. This county by county study showing that rural counties in Florida accounted for most of the under-reporting. This new study brought to use courtesy of researchers at Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. COVID-19 has been more deadly in Florida than reported, especially in rural counties, study shows https://www.sun-sentinel.com/corona...0210331-a4rnsenzajdd5nnwzm2fkg5g5y-story.htmlhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/corona...0210331-a4rnsenzajdd5nnwzm2fkg5g5y-story.html Many COVID deaths went unreported last year in Florida’s rural counties, allowing the severity of the pandemic’s impact to be understated, according to a nationwide study released this week. Although urban counties such as those in South Florida did a good job identifying COVID deaths, most rural counties reported an unusual jump in deaths for 2020 but left many of them unexplained or attributed to other causes, according to a study by researchers at Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “I think there’s a hidden pandemic here that’s not being appreciated,” said Andrew Stokes, assistant professor in the Department of Global Health in the Boston University School of Public Health. “But it’s not hitting Florida equally. It’s hitting some areas more than others.” “If COVID deaths are being suppressed in certain counties in Florida, that is creating the appearance in those counties that COVID is not a real big deal,” he said. “And that’s probably affecting people’s behaviors.” The study examined more than 2,000 counties nationwide and found the number of unreported COVID deaths was higher in rural counties, particularly ones that were poorer, less educated, with higher percentages of Black residents, with higher rates of diabetes, and located in the southern or western states. The study has not yet been peer-reviewed but has been made public to allow researchers the chance to read it and comment. Among possible reasons for undercounting deaths include the skepticism about the severity of the disease in conservative areas, less widespread testing, and reduced availability of health care in smaller communities. “We saw patients in hospitals dying of COVID refusing to acknowledge they have COVID and saying it’s a hoax,” said Katherine Hempstead, a co-author of the study and senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “It’s been politicized. Some act like not as big a health problem as other people do.” Other possible reasons, she said, could be that hospitals discharge patients too soon so they die at home and the death is not recorded as a COVID death. Hempstead said if someone died at home in a rural part of Florida, they may not do a lot of toxicology testing because they don’t have resources. “There are differences in resources, and that affects what gets considered on a death certificate,” she said. In total, Florida had 21,890 deaths officials attributed to COVID in 2020. The study looked at the number of deaths in each county, focusing on “excess deaths,” those that were above what would have been expected without the COVID pandemic. If COVID deaths were correctly reported, the vast majority of these deaths would be assigned to COVID, as they were in Florida’s urban counties. But in most rural counties, they were not. The number of excess deaths not assigned to COVID ranged from about 10% in Union County to nearly 80% in Franklin County, according to the study. Although a few urban counties ranked high for missed deaths, the vast majority were rural, with many found to have missed 20%-50% of deaths. One factor in the uncounted deaths could have come early in the pandemic when coronavirus testing was scarce. “My understanding is that Florida did not assign COVID to the death certificate in cases where testing did not occur,” Stokes said. “Attending physicians and medical examiners are only coding COVID if there was a test.” Five of the six counties with the highest likely percentage of missed deaths fall under the jurisdiction of a single medical examiner, Dr. David Stewart, whose Panhandle-based District 2 includes Franklin County, which headed the list, followed by Jefferson, Wakulla and Leon counties. Taylor County, for which he is also responsible, ranked sixth. “There could be some medical examiner effects here,” Stokes said. “You can see the underreporting is greatest in several districts that are controlled by the same medical examiner. For example, District 2 seems to be quite problematic.” Stewart declined comment. Medical examiners had been in charge of reporting COVID deaths to the state for the first half of last year, before voluntarily relinquishing control in Augustbecause the workload turned out to be overwhelming. Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of Florida’s Medical Examiners Commission, said there is no reason why a medical examiner would intentionally under-report COVID deaths. He thinks it is more about being uninformed about how to look deeper. He also said big counties quickly became more experienced about how to recognize a COVID death. There were several reasons COVID deaths could be missed in rural counties, he said. Some small counties lack hospitals, which means the deaths of the sickest patients may be counted in nearby counties that do have the facilities. Gov. Ron DeSantis has bragged about what he’s described as Florida’s success in fighting COVID without the drastic measures imposed by other states. If Florida’s death count turned out to be significantly higher, that would undermine that message. But Stokes said failures to report COVID deaths in rural Florida counties were balanced by more complete reporting in urban counties, minimizing the impact on the state total. He estimates that Florida had more than 2,600 excess deaths in 2020 that were not counted as COVID. Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, said that while the research on missed deaths in Florida was unsurprising, the state probably ranks in the middle for missed deaths, which is an issue nationwide.
LOL Lots of ifs n buts and maybes and possibly and not peer reviewed studies. More lies from the panic porn pushers.
Amazon to airlift 10,000 oxygen concentrators and BiPAP machines into India https://www.livemint.com/news/india...bipap-machines-into-india-11619420347086.html
COVID overwhelms a country whose nationalistic leader holds large campaign rallies and demands that mass religious ceremonies must be held. Sound familiar? Well here it is again. Modi is a ‘super spreader’ of coronavirus, says IMA vice president Dr Navjot Dahiya claimed that the PM did not take any steps to strengthen the health system, and instead held poll rallies and allowed the Kumbh Mela. https://scroll.in/latest/993413/modi-is-a-super-spreader-of-coronavirus-says-ima-vice-president Dr Navjot Dahiya, the national vice president of the Indian Medical Association, on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “super spreader” of the coronavirus for holding political rallies in poll-bound states and allowing Kumbh Mela to take place amid the second wave of the pandemic, reported The Tribune. “While the medical fraternity is trying hard to make people understand mandatory Covid-19 norms, PM Modi did not hesitate to address big political rallies, tossing all Covid-19 norms in the air,” Dahiya said in a statement. Dahiya noted that when the first patient of the coronavirus was found in India in January 2020, the prime minister, instead of making arrangements to tackle the infection, organised gatherings of over one lakh people in Gujarat to welcome the then United States President Donald Trump, reported The Times of India. “Now, when the second wave of Covid-19 is yet to reach its peak, the entire health system is failing as PM did not take any step to strengthen it during the entire year,” he said. The international media coverage on the pandemic in India has also criticised Modi and his ‘stark failure’ in handling the coronavirus crisis. The vice president of the IMA also said that the scarcity of medical oxygen has become the reason for the deaths of many Covid-19 patients. “Several projects for installing oxygen plants are still pending with the Union government for clearance, but no heed was given to such an important need by the Modi government,” he said. He added that the impact of the pandemic was visible with bodies piling up in crematoriums and long queues of ambulances outside hospitals in almost every city of the country. “Even on the issue of farmers’ agitation against farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not act in a responsible manner and [allowed] the presence of huge gathering of farmers without solving their issues, causing a serious threat of Covid-19 spread,” Dahiya added. He also criticised the government for backing Yoga guru Ramdev’s Coronil, which the Patanjali Ayurved claims to be the “first evidence-based medicine” to fight Covid. But the product was disclaimed by World Health Organization, he said. In February, Ramdev had claimed that a WHO team had visited his company and given Coronil the licence for sale in more than 150 countries. However, the WHO had clarified that it did not review or certify the effectiveness of any traditional medicine. India on Tuesday registered 3,23,144 new coronavirus cases in a day, taking the total number of infections to 1,76,36,307 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. While the single-day infection count is slightly less than Monday’s count, India has registered more than 3 lakh cases for the sixth day in a row. With 2,771 deaths, the toll went up to 1,97,894. Election rallies and Kumbh Mela While the country battled with a record surge in Covid-19 cases for days during the second wave and hospitals ran out of beds and oxygen, hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to participate in the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar city and politicians were holding election rallies attended by thousands with little evidence of masks or physical distancing. The violation of Covid-19 protocols at Kumbh Mela attracted attention from across the world. However, state authorities, including Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat, tried to downplay the risks. On April 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that the celebration should be held as a “symbolic event” due to the coronavirus situation. In West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah held gigantic rallies until last week, when the Election Commission finally banned all roadshows and limited gatherings to 500 people amid the worsening situation. After the fourth round of elections in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had announced that it will not organise big election rallies for the remaining phases. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi cancelled his rallies in West Bengal and Banerjee also decided to hold smaller election meetings. Shah, however, said that it was not right to link the surge in coronavirus cases in India to elections.
Right. When the data doesn't back your narrative, it has to be forged or false. Proof not necessary. In same breath, tell us again how the vote was legit! where's the proof of fraud, right?
Go read the DeSantis thread for all the studies showing the under-counting in Florida. There are multiple studies showing this.
Sure there are. "Go read". how about you "go read" the responses I made to those ridiculous posts you made there?