Florida Department of Health September 14

Nassau County Department of Health
September 14, 2020

Nassau County Emergency Management: DOH-Nassau’s epidemiologists are investigating 23 new cases of CoViD-19 today. As a reminder, symptoms of CoViD-19 vary from person-to-person. Some are mild. Today there are 10 CoViD-19 patients in BMC-Nassau, five in intensive care.  Please continue to stay home if you might be contagious, protect others from your respiratory germs when you are close by wearing a barrier over your mouth and nose, clean and disinfect objects/surfaces you touch, and wash your hands often!

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Ben Martin
Ben Martin(@ben-martin)
3 years ago

Some critical thinking. The median separates the lower half of a data set from the higher half. For the series 1, 3, 95 the median value is “3.”

We have a government agency telling us the median age is “45.” This means that half of the people who died from covID were 45 years or younger.

That is hard to believe.



Can government health agencies really be trusted?

Ben Martin
Ben Martin(@ben-martin)
3 years ago

Correction. The median age that is stated is for “cases” not deaths. So they are saying the median age for cases is 45 which is believable. Curiously the Average Age of death is not provided.

David Kramek
David Kramek (@guest_58899)
3 years ago

Thank you for posting the percentage of Positive results, gender, age, etc.

Jay Kayne
Jay Kayne(@jay-kayne)
3 years ago

The bar graph showing fatalities would give you impression deaths are dramatically declining. That is only because it is based on the date a fatality occurred rather than the date it was officially reported. Why does that matter? Take August 20, 2020 as an example. The first report of that date showed only six fatalities. If you closely examine the latest bar graph the number of death on August 20, 2020 is NOW reported as 91.

The graph would look significantly different if it showed the number of deaths officially recorded by date rather than the date of death. It would be relatively flat, much closer to what the first 15 days of the current chart versus the last 15 days which are skewed because of the yet unconfirmed or reported deaths.

Numbers do not lie, but the way they are presented can be dishonest.