- CDC has revised Florida's COVID-19 figures after the state Department of Health accused the agency of overcounting Sunday's totals
- The federal health agency reported a new record of more than 28,000 cases on Sunday
- Florida's DOH accused the CDC of combining multiple days' worth of data into one and that the true figure is really 15,000, which is an overcount of 15,000
- The state reported 56,000 cases from Friday to Sunday and it is believed that the CDC split the total over two days - Saturday and Sunday - rather than three days
- The CDC's updated Covid numbers, reporting 19,000 on Sunday, are still higher than the figures published by the DOH
- Florida no longer reports daily COVID-19 cases, instead publicly revealing weekly counts every Friday
On Monday, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) accused the CDC of misreporting the state's weekend COVID-19 numbers.
The federal health agency had posted that 28,317 new Covid cases were recorded in The Sunshine State on Sunday, a record-high that was reported by multiple media outlets.
However, the DOH stated that is true total was 15,319 cases, indicating an overcount of more than 13,000.
On Wednesday, the CDC updated Florida's new cases to 23,958 for Friday, 21,487 on Saturday and 19,584 on Sunday - quietly admitting that the state DOH was right - but did not offer an explanation as to why.
Interestingly, the revised CDC numbers are still higher than totals the DOH published to its Twitter account on Monday.
CDC revised Florida's COVID-19 figures after the state Department of Health accused the agency of overcounting Sunday's totals with updated figures showing 19,584 new cases (left). CDC previously reported an inaccurate new record of more than 28,000 cases (right)
Florida's DOH said the true number of cases on Sunday is 15,000, making the CDC's original number an overreport of 13,000 cases and not a record-high
The DOH official Twitter account took aim at local news outlets who published stories about the state setting a new record of daily COVID-19 cases on Monday, citing the CDC data.
'This is not accurate,' the agency tweeted on Monday evening, in response to...
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This "error" was quickly caught, went viral, and thus had to be corrected. How many thousands of other errors are in this piece of covid data or that one that nobody notices? Because frankly, most people don't have the time, desire, or ability to dig in to a giant box full of numbers and make sure they're right. NJ has a Covid Dashboard. For over a year there was an improper category in the mortality bar graph. Nobody noticed, nobody ever fixed it. I finally got sick of seeing it, wrote them of their error, told them where it came from, and in a week or two it was corrected. You can assume that the state employees responsible for the graph all earn north of $100K, and that keeping this vital graph up to date is one of their main responsibilities.
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