Re: Covfefe-19 The 10th Part: Might As Well Reject No Shirt, No Shoes While You're At
I wonder if he's been drawing his information from this site at the CDC, and in particular, Table 2. Those are numbers maintained by the CDC through a few days ago.
It's an interesting table. They break it down by Covid, pneumonia, Covid and pneumonia, etc... The numbers they show for Florida are pretty close to what was in the tweet.
The column of "percent of expected death" (the third column of numbers) is fairly interesting. In that column they compare the total deaths in a state compared with what the anticipated death count should be for all causes in that state based upon the last few years, and express it by percentage. If you are above 100, there has been more death in your state. Below 100, less than anticipated.
In Minnesota, we're at 101%, so we've had more deaths than we'd normally expect, although not NYC numbers.
The U.S., as a whole, is at 99%, which is somewhat surprising.
No idea if the numbers are accurate or not, but I stumbled across that table a few days ago and found it interesting.
I don't trust the numbers coming from several states. Numbers are suspect in FL, and any Google search will give pause that Covid deaths are being under-reported far more than over-reported.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">According to the CDC, so far this year, Florida has had 1,762 deaths from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID</a> and 5,185 from pneumonia.<br><br>Average pneumonia deaths in Florida from 2013-2018 for the same time period are 918.<br><br>Probably just a coincidence, yeah?</p>— Kellen Squire (@SquireForYou) <a href="https://twitter.com/SquireForYou/status/1265553065056362497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I wonder if he's been drawing his information from this site at the CDC, and in particular, Table 2. Those are numbers maintained by the CDC through a few days ago.
It's an interesting table. They break it down by Covid, pneumonia, Covid and pneumonia, etc... The numbers they show for Florida are pretty close to what was in the tweet.
The column of "percent of expected death" (the third column of numbers) is fairly interesting. In that column they compare the total deaths in a state compared with what the anticipated death count should be for all causes in that state based upon the last few years, and express it by percentage. If you are above 100, there has been more death in your state. Below 100, less than anticipated.
In Minnesota, we're at 101%, so we've had more deaths than we'd normally expect, although not NYC numbers.
The U.S., as a whole, is at 99%, which is somewhat surprising.
No idea if the numbers are accurate or not, but I stumbled across that table a few days ago and found it interesting.