Florida Department of Health
August 27, 2020
Florida Department of Health Issues Daily Update on COVID-19
~New case positivity rate below 10 percent for fifteenth straight day~
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health (DOH), in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. Today, Florida had the fifteenth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases.
Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 3,269 new positive COVID-19 cases and 135 reported deaths – 12 occurred yesterday, August 26. As posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s hospitalization dashboard at 11 a.m., there are 4,289 current hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.
Test results for more than 58,700 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Wednesday, August 26. On August 26, 6.36 percent of new cases** tested positive.
To date, there are a total of 611,991 Florida cases*** with 10,868 deaths related to COVID-19.
Since August 26, the death of one hundred thirty-five Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Bay, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Gulf, Highlands, Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Leon, Manatee, Marion, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sumter and Volusia counties.
Glad to see the good doctor was wearing a mask when she was in a room all by herself. This is beneficial to the climate of fear we so badly need. But what we should really be afraid of is people sitting down and taking a look at the numbers – like the caller who did so.
Population of Nassau County = 89,000
Deaths the are coded as “Covid Deaths” as of August 27 = 16
16 / 89,000 = 0.00018
It is a good thing we are teaching the “new math” in schools because otherwise people might really start to question mask mandates. And if they do that they will likely start to ask all kinds of other questions. Such as:
Some people might start to ponder that you have more chance of a parachute malfunction while skydiving then dying from COVID as a resident of Nassau County. But if they do that we will tell them it is the mask mandate that is keeping the numbers low. Lots of people will believe it. After all, we’ve got half the world believing cow flatulence is killing polar bears. Just remember, it is easier to fool someone than convince them they have been fooled.
Check your math. You are comparing nassau deaths to total Florida
The math is correct.
16 “deaths by covID”
89,000 people in Nassau County.
16 / 89,000 = 0.00018