The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted that it overcounted Florida’s total COVID-19 cases for last weekend, claiming that all of the cases from the entire weekend – 28,000 – occurred on one day, and thus creating the appearance that the highly survivable disease was spiking under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ watch.
In reality, the CDC for some reason failed to note that states do not report data for weekends until the following week, leading to a large number of total cases reported on the first day of the week. For some unknown reason, the CDC attributed Florida’s entire number of new COVID cases to one day, Sunday August 8, instead of the entire weekend. This was used to claim the state was reaching “record” numbers of infections. Read more…