Florida: Fired web architect for Covid Dashboard makes competing dashboard

[QuietRiot]

...and the numbers are reporting higher on her site, since it's likely the Florida Gov. decided to report on non-representative data. 

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200611/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos?nocache=1

 

 

[clia]

The article explains why her numbers are higher:

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In her most noticeable break from the state, Jones’ site shows far more people with the illness than the state reports. To the daily number of people with positive coronavirus tests, Jones adds those testing positive to antibodies that may indicate the presence of the disease.

While the Health Department reported 69,069 confirmed cases on Thursday, Jones’ website showed 75,897.

That could be a mistake, cautioned Dr. Terry Adirim, chairwoman of Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Integrated Biomedical Science. She warned against combining the results because antibody tests are more prone to false positives. Jones separately shows the state’s tally as well.

Jones’ site also offers a different death toll. She listed 2,938 deaths in Florida on Thursday while the state listed 2,848 because her site includes deaths of non-residents who caught the virus in Florida.

 

[introverted1]

The presence of antibodies means that the person had the disease and recovered, not that they are currently infected.

Beyond this, there is the well-documented issue of false positives with antibody testing.

 

 

[SincereOnlineGuy]

Those "dashboards" have been filled with completely absurd data and errors making them hard to trust.

 

a few days ago, they assured that upward of 10% of the population of the Northern Mariana Islands had already DIED of Covid-19.

 

And that's just an example of the stupidity.

 

Sometimes total cases mysteriously drop by huge numbers...

 

 

 

Edited June 12, 2020 by SincereOnlineGuy