Florida

Towlie

(5,458 posts) Wed Sep 2, 2020, 12:37 PM Sep 2020

Sudden jump of new cases from 1,885 on August 31 to 7,569 on September 1, due to found data.

Quest Diagnostics has abruptly released months-old data that caused a sharp jump in Florida's total COVID-19 cases, and the governor is pissed. You can read about it on any of these news sites.

The question now is how this corrected data will be handled by The COVID Tracking Project. It seems to me that this most recent figure of 631,040 total cases is correct, but all of the total case figures for the last several months are deceptively low. The numbers and charts could easily be made to look reasonable by throwing out the "stale" data from Quest Diagnostics, but that would be falsifying reality. The honest way would be to revise all of the previous numbers, but that could be politically inconvenient for our Governor Ron DeathSentence.

I've been tracking the Florida data from the COVID Tracking Project, and it'll be interesting to see how this is handled.

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Sudden jump of new cases from 1,885 on August 31 to 7,569 on September 1, due to found data. (Original Post) Towlie Sep 2020 OP

Every test has a date. I'd love to see all the data. Phoenix61 Sep 2020 #1

Not adjusting for testing date is morally repugnant as far as I'm concerned. Pacifist Patriot Sep 2020 #3

I've been tracking the data since the first case was reported in my county in early March. Pacifist Patriot Sep 2020 #2

I'm Suspicious of the Big Drop in Daily Cases We Are Seeing in Florida Recently Indykatie Sep 2020 #4

Right! There was a sudden sustained drop starting at mid-August that had no apparent cause. Towlie Sep 2020 #5

Phoenix61

(17,641 posts)

1. Every test has a date. I'd love to see all the data.

Reply to Towlie (Original post)

Wed Sep 2, 2020, 12:50 PM

Sep 2020

DeSatan is saying some is from as far back as April. But is it evenly spread between now and then or is most of it current with a couple of old data points. This is when having a lying POS for a governor really sucks. He’s so hell bent on opening schools he’d sell his mother’s soul to make it happen let alone lie about data.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,901 posts)

3. Not adjusting for testing date is morally repugnant as far as I'm concerned.

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 2, 2020, 12:52 PM

Sep 2020

That man cannot exit "public service" fast enough to suit me. He is beyond horrific as a governor.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,901 posts)

2. I've been tracking the data since the first case was reported in my county in early March.

Reply to Towlie (Original post)

Wed Sep 2, 2020, 12:51 PM

Sep 2020

Yesterday shocked the hell out of me. But only because I suspected the reported numbers for the previous two weeks were oddly low.

Indykatie

(3,853 posts)

4. I'm Suspicious of the Big Drop in Daily Cases We Are Seeing in Florida Recently

Reply to Towlie (Original post)

Wed Sep 2, 2020, 01:04 PM

Sep 2020

I don't trust DeSantis not to fudge the numbers. I feel the same about Texas.

Towlie

(5,458 posts)

5. Right! There was a sudden sustained drop starting at mid-August that had no apparent cause.