From FoxNews.com….
A host of liberal websites and personalities gleefully shared a Yahoo story Tuesday purporting Florida undercounted its coronavirus deaths by thousands, but the story quoted more experts undercutting its premise than supporting it.
The piece by left-wing reporter Alexander Nazaryan, headlined “Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny,” leads with “new research” that the state isn’t accurately reporting its death count, but critics of the article said it was the result of amateur data cherry-picking in yet another media effort to tear down Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
1) New York's official COVID tally is still thousands behind the CDC tally
2) Every state has more "likely" COVID deaths if you look at the excess death rate
3) Dr Grayson almost certainly knows this and her omission means she is lying to you. She is a liar. https://t.co/Po8EZ4fybE
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) March 30, 2021
The crux of the piece came from American Journal of Public Health researchers singling out Florida after comparing the number of estimated deaths from March to September 2020 to the actual number of deaths in the state.
This figure is known as “excess deaths” because they exceed the estimate, Nazaryan reported, and lead researcher Moosa Tatar said COVID-19 was likely responsible for most of the excess deaths.
