04-29-2020, 04:52 PM
This is Florida - home of the hanging chads.
My assumption will be that Florida is just not that organized. Tracking COVID deaths gets tricky as it shares some of the same symptoms as the flu, and testing across the USA has not been great.
I am confident in most states there have been hospital and nursing home COVID19 deaths assigned to other causes. I am also confident a lot of deaths will have happened outside of hospitals and nursing homes.
Maybe politics or business is in the mix too, but I think for most states the explanations will center on the overwhelming number of deaths and the limitations related to performing tests and getting test results back before patients died.
My assumption will be that Florida is just not that organized. Tracking COVID deaths gets tricky as it shares some of the same symptoms as the flu, and testing across the USA has not been great.
I am confident in most states there have been hospital and nursing home COVID19 deaths assigned to other causes. I am also confident a lot of deaths will have happened outside of hospitals and nursing homes.
Maybe politics or business is in the mix too, but I think for most states the explanations will center on the overwhelming number of deaths and the limitations related to performing tests and getting test results back before patients died.