The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention up to date its data for COVID-19 cases in Florida after the state’s well being division claimed the federal company incorrectly grouped a number of days’ value of data into one. However, the numbers nonetheless do not match up.
The CDC initially mentioned there have been 28,317 new cases on Sunday, prompting the state well being division to tweet its quantity on document as 15,319 and word there was a three-day common of 18,795, in accordance to a neighborhood FOX affiliate.
“The number of cases @CDCgov released for Florida today is incorrect,” the Florida well being division wrote on Monday in response to a media outlet reporting the CDC’s weekend case numbers. “They combined MULTIPLE days into one. We anticipate CDC will correct the record.”
The CDC, which informed Fox News it was working with the state’s well being division to correct the knowledge, adjusted its Sunday quantity to 19,584, in accordance to data posted to the federal company’s web site.
However, as of Wednesday afternoon, the CDC’s data nonetheless do not match the Florida well being company’s numbers throughout Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The CDC confirmed 23,958 cases for Friday, 21,487 for Saturday, and 19,584 for Sunday. The Florida Department of Health confirmed 21,500 for Friday, 19,567 for Saturday, and 15,319 for Sunday.
The CDC explains on its webpage there are a number of “challenges” to buying “complete and accurate” data from states and territories, including: “There might be discrepancies between numbers reported by CDC versus by health departments. When this occurs, data reported by health departments should be considered the most accurate.”
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Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned throughout a press convention on Tuesday that the CDC “misreported some cases” with a three-day report over two days that “made it look like we had higher on those days than we did.” The Republican additionally mentioned he would discuss to the division about rectifying the state of affairs.
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The Washington Examiner contacted the CDC, the Florida Department of Health, and Desantis’s workplace concerning the discrepancy but didn’t instantly obtain a response.
DeSantis additionally mentioned on Tuesday he doubted the validity of experiences exhibiting Florida requested a whole bunch of ventilators from the federal authorities amid rising COVID-19 cases within the state. The FDOH indicated in a press release to the Washington Examiner it was answerable for the ventilator request.
“I have not heard about that, so I have to check to see if that’s true or not,” DeSantis mentioned Tuesday when requested concerning the ventilator request. “I would honestly doubt that that’s true, but I’ll look.”
On Wednesday, a spokesperson from DeSantis’s workplace mentioned the request for ventilators didn’t undergo his workplace, in accordance to CNN, which famous that an official with Department of Health and Human Services mentioned 200 ventilators and 100 high-flow nasal cannula kits had been despatched from the Strategic National Stockpile “earlier this week.”
“The first he had heard of it was that reporter’s question to him. I can also confirm that no one in the Executive Office of the Governor was involved or aware of the request,” mentioned Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’s press secretary.
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As of Tuesday, Florida had greater than 14,797 confirmed hospitalizations due to COVID-19, an uptick of 1,173 since the day past, in accordance to the Florida Hospital Association.
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Original Author: Kaelan Deese
Original Location: CDC scrambles to correct Florida COVID-19 cases but can’t seem to match state data
