You read it somewhat casually, and you figure that in the last 24 hours, 46 people died. Not true. Why? Check the Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard and specially the text at the bottom which has been there forever, but only a few has bother to read and even less to share.
The Deaths by Day chart shows the total number of Florida residents with confirmed COVID-19 that died on each calendar day (12:00 AM – 11:59 PM). Death data often has significant delays in reporting, so data within the past two weeks will be updated frequently.
In layman’s’ terms: Whenever the paperwork shows up, we update the numbers for past days. Yesterday, at the update time, there was only one death recorded with the Department of Health for May 20th. Today the same date gives us 20 deaths. The report was adjusted to show what had been reported.
This is also important because the media latched on a prohibition issued against county coroners about they giving their respective numbers of deaths to anybody whenever it suit them. You can imagine the monumental clusterflock of 67 counties issuing numbers without any order and the Media “making mistakes oops! Sorry!” reporting those deaths just to make the governor look bad. Hell, the same media has been demanding more testing and when the numbers come in, they lose their minds because more people are found with the Wuhan V (ZOMG! WE GONNA DIEEEE!) which means the Republicans and the Governor do not know what they are doing.
And then they are surprised when we don’t give two dried shits about them.