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I am going to say this about FL: the amount of data & transparency available to the public is impressive.
 

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I am going to say this about FL: the amount of data & transparency available to the public is impressive.
Most state departments of health have very good dashboards.

The easiest way to find them is with this website


One of the last columns has the source of their info with links to the individual states. Most are DOH from the state.
 

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Most state departments of health have very good dashboards.

The easiest way to find them is with this website


One of the last columns has the source of their info with links to the individual states. Most are DOH from the state.
I monitor state of IL data and we have a fraction of the data you have and much of it doesn’t get updated frequently. It’s been a big source of public complaint.
 

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I am going to say this about FL: the amount of data & transparency available to the public is impressive.
Especially if you count the website created and maintained by the statistician whom Governor DeSantis fired.


 

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Especially if you count the website created and maintained by the statistician whom Governor DeSantis fired.

There seem to be questions about the authorship of the website.
 

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There seem to be questions about the authorship of the website.
Do you have any info about that?
Their mission statement and disclosures seem straightforward.
 

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Houston-Based Texas Medical Center hit 100% ICU bed occupancy, then didn't report data for 3 days

Edited to add San Antonio to the mix:
 
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Federal COVID test supplies late, unsterile, Washington state says.


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Do you have any info about that?
Their mission statement and disclosures seem straightforward.

Sorry @Conan - as I missed this question when you posted it.
I had read a couple of stories where the idea this was a single person effort was discussed. No one person anywhere can identify, produce, collect, analyze, and publish data in a timely manner we need at present. This type of undertaking requires many people. This is NOT to say the fired statistician did not play an important role in that process, rather to emphasize this was an effort involving much more than one person.

I also recall there were some charges being bounced about suggesting political concerns were influencing the interpretation data - which we need to avoid.

Sorry I did not reply sooner.
 

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This post might take this thread in a slightly different direction, but I am opting to post it here as opposed to starting another COVID-19 related thread.....
@Ken555 - I am tagging you here thinking you might find this of interest....

I had a yearly appointment today with my doctor and while I was getting my blood drawn, the technician and I were discussing the testing machine they had in the lab. One of the current topics in Arkansas has to do with the growing testing backlog and if I understood all the points being made today, I can (more clearly) see where part of the problem comes from. Among the points made were the following:
  • More than one company produces testing hardware for COVID-19. These tests may be done with entirely different machines (the point here being the machines are NOT interchangeable with each other).
  • The technician suggested these testing machines are (in all likelihood) single purpose machines. This is to say when a company designs a machine to test for COVID-19, that machine is unlikely to be of use for any other testing. I specifically asked her if we were to have COVID-22, could the same physical machine not be used? Her answer was most likely not. That caught my attention.
  • Two (or more) different companies may need ENTIRELY DIFFERENT set of reagents to perform their tests. Though it is likely that some of the needed reagents would be similar from company to company, a shortage of one reagent may impact one vendor's ability to test (if that vendor alone is dependent on that specific reagent). Of course, if that reagent were more common, then it might impact the ability to test on more (different vendor) platforms.
  • One of the conclusions I drew from this is how expensive all of this will be just to combat a single virus. Additionally, what happens to the current testing procedures as the virus mutates? Will we have to move to different reagents (possibly)? Will the same testing hardware work with the mutated virus?
I found these points interesting..and a bit frightening.
 

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@bbodb1, yes it's interesting. My cousin works at one of the labs doing testing in the Bay Area and I've heard about this issue. You might think standardization would occur at times like this, but from what I understand (and perhaps someone here can clarify this point) the speed of development seems to impede that with various companies simply producing a solution as fast and as best they can.
 

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Sorry @Conan - as I missed this question when you posted it.
I had read a couple of stories where the idea this was a single person effort was discussed. No one person anywhere can identify, produce, collect, analyze, and publish data in a timely manner we need at present. This type of undertaking requires many people. This is NOT to say the fired statistician did not play an important role in that process, rather to emphasize this was an effort involving much more than one person.

I also recall there were some charges being bounced about suggesting political concerns were influencing the interpretation data - which we need to avoid.

Sorry I did not reply sooner.
Not a problem.
I did post recently what I've been able to learn about how Florida does (or doesn't) report deaths and ICU admissions. Much of the material is from that one person, as you say, but I've no reason to think she's not being accurate:
 
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