Media Ignore Florida Covid Recovery

https://www.wsj.com/articles/media-ignore-florida-covid-coronavirus-vaccination-herd-immunity-desantis-ladapo-11635707152

by mrfusion • 5 years ago

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nate_meurer• 5 years ago

Thank you for linking directly to the archive.

dang• 5 years ago

No, please don't do that. It obscures where the article is from. Archive links are welcome in the comment thread, as plenty of users demonstrate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

We've changed the URL above from https://archive.md/EybRZ to the article it points to.

For those worried about the paywall issue, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

AIorNot• 5 years ago

Umm NO. because the higher death toll and damage done by willfully ignoring prudent mass vaccination advice has already occurred in Florida

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/scicheck-desantis-comments...

dragonwriter• 5 years ago

Florida’s recent death rate is still above the national average (0.44 vs 0.37 per 100k).

The Right media (and people parroting it) have been pushing Florida’s low case rates for a month or more (after spending most of the pandemic mocking case rates as unreliable and pointing to the importance of looking at death rates) while ignoring their hospitalization and death rates.

banku_brougham• 5 years ago

dont really trust all the florida data shennanigans

tzs• 5 years ago

Graph of weekly per capita case rates of California and Florida [1] and also for all US regions.

Same for weekly death rates [2].

And here are cumulative case and death rates [3][4].

Florida has at all times done worse than California on cases except at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021 and the last 3 weeks. Similar on deaths.

Florida's third wave (which occurred AFTER over half their population was vaccinated) was way bigger than their second wave which occurred late 2022/early 2021, before vaccines were available.

In fact, Florida's post-vaccine third wave performance is worse than most state's pre-vaccine second wave.

In the last 3 months they went from around 25th in total per capita deaths to 6th.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

[4] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

Media Ignore Florida Covid Recovery

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