Horowitz: All the ways the media is misleading you about a record spike in Florida
Daniel Horowitz · June 22, 2020

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-ways-media-misleading-record-spike-florida/

When the media frantically warns of record spikes of coronavirus cases in Florida and several other southern states and predicts these states will become the next epicenter for the virus, people automatically conjure up images of Italy and New York City. Naturally, that is the desired result of the media-driven panic. In fact, the media has been predicting Florida would become the next New York since early April. However, once you study the data on who these states are testing and why testing is going up yet deaths are still declining every day, it becomes clear that the reality is the exact opposite of the panic the media is pushing.

The reality is that what happened in New York City in March was an anomaly, and its unique dynamic is not migrating to other states. In fact, the virus continues to prove itself less deadly than previously thought and likely becoming milder as time goes on. Several weeks into the superficial spike in cases, deaths are plummeting, reaching the lowest level on Sunday since the beginning of the epidemic and down 90 percent since the peak.

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Only 297 reported deaths today with the 7-day avg falling to 592. Sunday's are low due to weekend reporting lags, but today's figure is the lowest for a Sunday since Mar 22. pic.twitter.com/w9vLEVsute

— Todd Lowdon (@tlowdon) June 21, 2020

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More widespread and less deadly

During the peak of the virus in April, Miami-Dade County found through a serology test that the likely number of people infected was 16.5 times higher than the number of known cases. We also now know that an unknown percentage of people who get the virus, particularly those who don’t present symptoms, don’t even produce antibodies because their bodies ward off the virus with T cells.

It’s therefore not surprising, as testing becomes universal in doctors’ offices, hospitals, workplaces, and particularly in hot spots such as prisons, migrant labor, nursing homes, and meatpacking plants, that even if the virus is generally abating, we will discover more cases than even during the peak, especially in states that had a mild peak. Also, with the national obsession with testing, officials are now counting multiple positive tests for one patient as well as antibody tests that have all become more widespread in the past month. We never knew how many cases really existed during the peak weeks, because we were only testing those with serious cases, usually older and sicker people. Therefore, there is no way to track the true growth or decline of positive cases in a given state because we don’t have a fully transparent starting point.

It also makes sense that we will see these illusory increases, particularly in the southern states that were never hit hard. Because they had relatively few deaths, they didn’t test nearly as much as states that got hit hard like New York and New Jersey. Thus, the earlier numbers of cases were very low. It therefore doesn’t take much to see an increase once testing becomes universal. Unlike in New York, the increases are coming from a very low baseline that is not causing a strain on the hospitals.


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Yes, it is a pain in the azz..... I had a feeling that they were going to go in this direction, but was hoping that maybe not....

It seems that in many states, including Texas and Florida, the PtB seem to think that forcing masks and "social distancing" is some kind of "happy medium" that everyone is supposed to be happy about.....