The shift to weekly instead of daily reporting in Florida, Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota marked a notable shift during a pandemic in which coronavirus dashboards have become a staple for Americans closely tracking case counts and trends to navigate a crisis that has killed more than 600,000 people in the U.S.
In Florida’s last two weekly reports, the number of new cases shot up from 23,000 to 45,000 and then 73,000 on Friday, an average of more than 10,000 day. Hospitals are starting to run out of space in parts of the state. But reporting the numbers on a weekly basis still allows people to see the overall trends while smoothing out some of he day-to-day variations that come from the way cases are reported and not the actual number of new cases. And experts have long advised that it makes sense to pay more attention to the seven-day rolling average of new cases because the numbers can vary widely from one day to the next.
“Now that Nebraska is back to normal, some of the staff that has been dedicated to the dashboard has been able to focus on some of the other important issues,” Dack said. He said the message Nebraska sent when it ended its dashboard that the state emergency was over and conditions were returning to normal was troubling.
They made that shift well before the surge.
It’s because it proves that vaccine work. And money is the only thing that matters to them.
Hiding the numbers doesn’t stop people from dying.
There he goes again, DEATHSANTIS is releasing FALSE numbers of Covid-19 infections! Florida has by far the most COVID cases in the entire country. DEATHSANTIS would rather have Floridians DIE then him not get re-elected.
They want to cover up the truth!
Hid the bad news!!
Here's Florida's first weekly report - from June 4 - since apparently your reporters are too incompetent to find it themselves. 'Earlier this month' my ass.
Ron Deathsantis at work again killing Floridians in 'God's Waiting Room'
What can you expect from not so bright Duuuuhsantis. Besides wasn't he fighting to get J & J's vaccine in back on the market to push in black communities meanwhile putting Pfizer and Madera in white communities. Hmm and whites wonder why blacks in Florida won't vaccinate.
This news is harmful twitter needs to screen
Florida began weekly reporting on Friday, June 4 - not 'earlier this month.' You would think a 'professional' news organization can at least get a basic fact correct. Instead of trying to promote 'baseless conspiracy theories' - try doing something unique and report the truth.
He is running for president. And is a Trump man.
Obscure facts…in the tradition of the GOP!
Hey AP glad to see you're paying attention. Only problem is Florida starting reporting their numbers weekly since around the end of May BEFORE the latest surge. Go ahead and fact check that.
De Santis doesn’t trust Floridians with facts and statistics. He’d prefer to tell them what to think.
As someone that is vaccinated, I only want to hear data about the deaths of vaccinated patients. Positive cases and non-vaccinated death are of zero interest to me moving forward.
May be for cooking the numbers
spelling error. Correct: “DeathSantis”
Lying about the numbers worked before…
GovRonDeSantis doing what he does best, silencing actual facts and silence. Wonder how many raids he authorized against innocent people.
Florida is already under-reporting and misclassifying deaths. Now, they want to drop even further off by reporting weekly. How many tourists have to die before a Federal Government agency or two shows up and stop this? Interstate commerce clause re:tourism applies, yes?
Can’t hide Covid
I wonder why. Maybe to prevent people having bad thoughts, just like Trump during the pandemic.
Not suspicious at all.🤨
But I had some self-righteous Florida reporter tell me that everything DeSantis has done is completely above board and transparent 🙃
DeathSantis doesn't care 29,000 Floridians DIED from Covid. DeathSantis doesn't care 145 Floridians DIED in a collapsed Condo. DEATHSANTIS DOES NOT CARE DEATHSANTIS DOES NOT CARE DEATHSANTIS DOES NOT CARE
Fake news
The old what you don't know can hurt you. If they lie about life and death they will lie about anything. Drug test goofy.
Covid Alpha and her mutants do not care how frequently they report cases and death because they have their own agenda—survive at any cost. Something I wish a few million human beings would understand and do. This damn virus is smarter than most Americans. We are fu$ked.
DeSantis will NEVER allow the true numbers to be released.
all i hear is fudging the numbers in delay of issuing stats.
Welcome to North Korea.
Controlling the flow of facts is vitally necessary for fascism to succeed when it's in its culling phase. So nothing to see here folks, please disperse.
WTF 🤦🏻♀️
Brilliant move...and NOW report on defined cases, explaining the exact danger of the 'cases' ...don't lump asymptomatic and a sore throat with 'on a ventilator and 325 pounds.'
WTF? 'dashboards have become a staple for Americans'? No, just for lazy reporters regurgitated daily stats w/o context!
GovRonDeSantis believes he answers to no one. Don't question him. Don't debate him. He has all the answers and he knows what you want and need. If you just follow him, you will be happy and healthy...or sick and dead. Either one is fine with Ron.
The fuck your feelings - it’s just the flu folks are really feeling some kinda way…
proflevin Stalin told the world that Russia ended starvation in Russia.
DeSantis is using a trick out of Trump's playbook, 'what virus?' I've never met this virus...' He should be held responsible for the staggering debt Florida Hospitals are carrying & pay for medical expenses for the people who listened to him...
I'm trying to work out the logic behind that one.
It's possible stunningly large weekly numbers might impress some people more than smaller daily numbers. The daily numbers impressed me enough to get vaxxed in Feb/March, as soon as I was eligble. +rate in my state went from 10+ yesterday to 12+ today.
That IS foolishness.
Floridians get nothing from DeSantis except watered-down, built-up or 'just what he wants us to hear' information. He bragged during the first Covid go-round that FL was going to be just fine, now the same BS as hospitals fill up again. Deny, deny, deny & attack Fauci.
Can’t wait for Florida to report its first weekly total of 100,000 cases…that’ll look good.
UPDATE: RonDeathSantis and 3 other governors will be dancing the Covid numbers every Thursday on Fox.
How are they a staple formany Americans. Kinda sick and tired of the daily numbers.
Things are good when gov withholds data about a pandemic. Sunshine State lol. Tf
All you had to say was Florida 🤦🏼♂️ DeathSantis Support the recall and removal campaign and grab a tshirt!
GovRonDeSantis that is awesome. Looking forward to buying up some cheap real estate as your GQP die in hospital parking lots.
stantherunner
Criminal!!
What a shock. Surprised they haven't shut down the entire reporting website yet and replaced with a site telling viewers Covid was never really a problem and everything's back to normal, 'Move along now, there's nothing more to see here'.
Michigan has been reporting in 3 day increments for awhile now.
This man is a virus, we must remove all the viruses
Oh god!!! The world is ending we’re all gonna die! God please stfu.
Red states. As expected.
So I have a question. How are they able to say which variant they have from the test we have. They can't so what is the real scoop. We all know that variants of Covid are mutants that are more contagious and less deadly.
Actually Florida cut back several weeks ago ... do you not pay attention?
Why waste the updates on the unvaccinated...no pesky hospitalizations or death rates as it scares the tourists..
A majority of Trump supporters are now disguising themselves as the unvaccinated to show opposition towards President Biden. Their antipathy and disdain towards Biden is so strong that that they risk dying from the Covid-19 Delta variant rather than take a jab for Joe. Bad risk.
These states are hiding information which will kill people in their states.
If you can't pay for cremation and no one claims your ashes, they are 'put' in a communal grave with other unclaimed (not paid for) ashes;
This is what dictators do in third world countries. Also a TRUMP 101 policy 😳
Florida has been falsifying reports to fit the governor’s agenda!! Look into it!!
What ever happened to that data scientist who was reporting the actual numbers; the one Desantis sent police after?
Soooo, 'Don't Fauci My Florida' is going well, then? Cheers to DeathSantis!
If COVID dashboards are a staple for many Americans the public health crisis isn’t COVID its mental health.
'In Florida’s last two weekly reports, the number of new cases shot up from 23,000 to 45,000 and then 73,000 on Friday, an average of more than 10,000 day.' Hospitals are starting to run out of space in parts of the state. Anyone want to guess what the numbers next week will be?
Naturally. What the people don't know is good politically for these creeps..
Well the Golden Calf said 'we only have so many cases because we are testing so much' 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ idiots.
Right from Trumps playbook: If you don’t test, there must be no virus.
Of course, the politicians think it’s better to just look bad once a week than every day!
How white of them
Because they're 27,000 of the 81,000... lol it's not gonna make it look better.
GovRonDeSantis wants to hide the facts that Covid19 infection rate is now 15.1% and hospital are filled with unvaccinated people. DeathSantis
It’s because RonDeSantisFL GovRonDeSantis is a snake! The devil among Floridians! He’d rather hide the truth, than show that he failed to protect his constituents. This is some MOB like behavior! He’s dangerous for Florida, and I fear for that State with him as Governor!
'Coronavirus dashboards are a staple for many Americans.' That's become a sickness. The level of fear and panic it has instilled in so many, and they may never recover.
Won't spend a penny in Florida now used to go a few times a year
Is Florida filled with dumb people only?
Covering it up is the way and the light for the GQP
Ron knows exactly what he is doing... He is lying to Floridains so he can keep his power...
Too many xases for desantis to count on his figers and toes so he has to wait for more ppl so he can count on their fingers also.
Florida and three other states have shifted to weekly instead of daily reporting of COVID-19 statistics, as cases across the U.S. skyrocket. Gee, ...I wonder why that is?
Desantis has been lying about and underreporting COVID deaths in Florida since day one.
DeathSantis prefers 'drip' to 'drip drip drip drip drip drip drip.'
Stop the testing. It makes me look bad.
In related news...
They should stop testing: with no tests there are no positives.
Florida already has been put on a 'Do Not Visit' list that I saw the other day.
Because they want to cook the books
who needs accurate and up to date numbers? I couldn’t imagine how that could help at all!💀
‘Why do you need those informational?’ —— White House
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