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Florida won't be reporting COVID-19 cases on Saturday because one lab dumped some 400,000 cases that had been previously submitted. Added: I've changed the link to reference the Miami-Herald, hoping that will be more widely accessible.

Will wonders never cease? We now have a report that Rosstat, the Russian statistics agency, says there was a serious undercount of COVID-19 deaths earlier this year. Keep watching for changes. In many places the future is uncertain. In Russia the past is also uncertain.

There seems to be a global competition for stupidity in response to COVID-19. I've mentioned a number of stupid actions and questionable statistics in Florida, and I'm sure there will be more, but the U.K. has just acknowledged a slight error in reporting thousands of cases due to an overloaded...

Meanwhile, Russia has quietly admitted they now have over 10,000 new cases per day. Russia's population is about half the U.S. Medical workers there never did see the dip in cases the central government reported. They are now seeing classic evidence of overload. This matches private reports...

For once I wish I didn't agree with Dr. Fauci. He basically said Florida is doomed to worse than it has experienced. In addition to reopening bars and restaurants at full capacity, the state government has undercut local governments ability to enforce mask laws with fines and business closures...

CNN - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/hope-hicks-positive-coronavirus/index.html

The Atlantic has an article on an epidemiological variable you probably have not heard about. We have heard about R0 and even have a site for Rt. Those who have been following these have been frustrated by the variations that take place, and efforts to distort statistics to portray a...

It now appears the White House stopped the C.D.C. from extending a "no sail" order on cruise ships. Here's an account in AXIOS. There is no question cruise ships have produced a number of "super-spreader" events. This appears to have been aimed at pleasing Florida voters. I'm not sure how...

We have a report here in Florida of a treatment protocol developed by AdventHealth in Ocala. (This non-profit hospital system is one of the better ones in the state in my experience.) ICAM only depends on supplements and generic drugs which can be used off-label. It has been very successful in...

AXIOS has noticed that U.S. numbers are moving in the wrong direction, and substantially so. Here's the direct link to data from JHU. Just click on the entry for U.S. and wait for the graph to refresh to show the number of cases per day. Epidemiologists wanted new cases below 10,000 per day...

Not only has the health minister in Victoria, Australia resigned, the state premier has just rejected calls for his resignation. This after they regained control of the second outbreak. At the peak they had just over 100 cases per day per million. On a 7-day average there were about 75 cases...

Previously, I have argued that I could no longer say what Florida's official COVID-19 statistics meant. I had also noted that officials were using weekly variations, and variations caused by reduced testing, to claim victory over the pandemic. I should have drawn the obvious conclusion: they...

Just to compare our local situation with others around the world I checked on a few other countries. Spain is clearly in a second wave, even without flu. France is still in an epidemic, and I'm not sure the first wave ever ended. Deutsche Welle reports that both France and the U.K. are...

A comment on Florida's strange statistics. After a weekend when matters looked better, and some officials claimed success, we had a day yesterday when 202 deaths were reported. Today we reported 177 deaths. I think it is safe to say we are still talking about thousands of cases and hundreds of...

At least the French government is telling you about classes that have been closed. Here in Florida I don't find out until an entire school is shut down. I doubt there is any deliberate decision about "herd immunity", what has happened is that officials have become tired of dealing with...

Today the CDC pulled guidelines which said the virus can spread through air, something we now know the President was told months ago when he told a journalist in a recorded interview. The CDC is no longer the center controlling release of data on the pandemic, that has been moved to HHS, where...

I'm decided to stop most posts about COVID-19 cases and deaths in Florida. The major variation in reports has to do with weekends and news cycles, not any underlying medical problems. I've been trying to make estimates based on excess deaths, but these numbers are now themselves political...

In very local news, we just had a second local school close because of an outbreak. Because the state has tried to restrict information about cases in schools, and I did not know anyone at that particular school, this came as a surprise. It appears that 2 out of 20 high schools in the district...

It seems we in Florida don't have a corner on the market for official incompetence. The U.K. is now rationing testing because nobody expected a surge in demand in September. Somebody must have believed their own propaganda about the pandemic fading away.

The WHO's Dr. Michael Ryan made a very blunt assessment of the COVID-19 crisis today. He is talking about 50,000 deaths per week worldwide, and close to 1,000 of these are happening here in Florida. We are also one of the places he mentions where testing is declining, even though the technical...