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Living in Florida I wouldn't trust any official numbers of cases or deaths. Also case numbers in general are dependent on the quantity of testing available whic

Living in Florida I wouldn't trust any official numbers of cases or deaths. Also case numbers in general are dependent on the quantity of testing available which is highly variable across states and across the country. Even deaths can easily be uncounted due to people dying without a Covid-19 diagnoses before (or after) death.

tehlike 6y ago
You can normalize by checking yoy overall death change, and attribute a good chunk to covid19.
- votepaunchy 6y ago
  Except it will be impossible to sort out deaths from COVID and deaths due to lockdown measures.
  - bluntfang 6y ago
    Why do you think deaths directly from the virus is more important than virus deaths + collateral damage? Are you trying to make the claim that lockdown measures are more destructive than the extremely infectious disease?
    - DuskStar 6y ago
      It is quite possible for lockdown measures to be more destructive than the disease they seek to prevent. Taken to an extreme, forbidding all human contact to protect against the common cold would be an example of such. And it's definitely worth considering when trying to determine if a lockdown was "worth" it. If you locked down and 10k people died, the lockdown looks a lot worse when 9k of those deaths were due to suicides/"elective" procedures/missed cancer/etc. Especially if only 20k deaths were expected from the disease if there was no lockdown at all...
HumblyTossed 6y ago
> Living in Florida I wouldn't trust any official numbers of cases or deaths. Exactly. There has already been legal wranglings between DeSantis and the Miami Herald over this.
- dhimes 6y ago
  Florida is especially problematic, but in general I'm using hospitalizations as a proxy where the hospital systems aren't overwhelmed.