The death rate in Florida that I've seen reported suddenly dropped by half in the last couple weeks, which is really weird, because it's ahead of the reported c

The death rate in Florida that I've seen reported suddenly dropped by half in the last couple weeks, which is really weird, because it's ahead of the reported case rate, where it normally lags. The Miami Herald reported that a change in methodology has created an artificial gap distorting things: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253796898.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25379689... https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444288-how-many-floridians-are-dying-of-covid-depends-on-where-you-look/ https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444288-how-many-floridi... Governor DeSantis and the Florida DOH have fired back, saying it's all political lies. https://floridapolitics.com/archives/454618-ron-desantis-covid-19-death-reporting-questions-are-partisan-distraction/ https://floridapolitics.com/archives/454618-ron-desantis-cov... Other people in Florida State government are clearly opposing DeSantis, for instance: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444317-nikki-fried-directs-fdacs-to-publish-federal-covid-19-data-amid-covid-information-sharing-void/ https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444317-nikki-fried-dire... I think that while DeSantis and the DOH may well be technically correct that the new method of reporting statistics is objectively more accurate in the long run, that doesn't mean that it isn't causing a distortion downstream, where it looks like nobody's dying on the most recent days, even though they are. e.g. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/