{"id":29582,"date":"2021-03-31T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=29582"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:23:00","slug":"is-florida-lying-about-its-covid-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=29582","title":{"rendered":"Is Florida Lying About Its COVID Numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-covid-numbers-face-new-scrutiny-090058319.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! News<\/a>: &#8220;New research\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/doi\/10.2105\/AJPH.2020.306130\" target=\"_blank\">published earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatives have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/vindication-for-ron-desantis-11614986751\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated<\/a>&nbsp;DeSantis for his handling of the pandemic, which has killed more than 30,000 residents of the state.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/158215\/florida-coronavirus-cases-ron-desantis-leads-state-morgue\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Critics<\/a>&nbsp;of the combative governor, meanwhile, say that many of those deaths would have been prevented if he had listened more diligently to health experts. DeSantis resisted lockdowns, downplayed masks and has made it increasingly difficult for localities to institute public health measures of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cases-florida-national-covid-bellwether-115340644.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be on the cusp<\/a>\u00a0of a new coronavirus surge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News: &#8220;New research\u00a0published earlier this month\u00a0in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully. Conservatives have&nbsp;celebrated&nbsp;DeSantis for his handling of the pandemic, which has killed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29583,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}