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PeraclesPlease — Mon, 11 May 2020 08:11:00 +0000

In reply to Florida: 'Found Unresponsive at Home’: Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths

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artappraiser — Sun, 10 May 2020 10:40:29 +0000

In reply to Florida: 'Found Unresponsive at Home’: Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths

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[...] The New York Times and other news outlets obtained the descriptions of the deaths — the first such statewide data from anywhere in the country — through a public records request. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which oversees the state Medical Examiners Commission, redacted the 203 pages to keep the descriptions and probable causes of death private.

[....] the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has not been eager to release some coronavirus records. The state also initially refused to release information on nursing homes where outbreaks occurred.

Though large parts of the documents released this week were redacted, the text could nevertheless be extracted, copied and pasted into another file so that it could be read in full, The Times found. The spreadsheet did not include first or last names; each person was identified only as “the decedent.”

The counties listed show [....]

The medical examiners’ count, which includes everybody in Florida who had a test confirming the presence of the virus, differs from the one maintained by the state Department of Health, which excludes tourists, seasonal residents and other nonresidents.

The probable causes of death, in each case linked to the coronavirus, are the same, over and over again: Pneumonia. Acute respiratory distress syndrome. Complications from Covid-19. A significant number of people had underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes or obesity.

Each person’s story, though, is a little different, often in heartbreaking ways [....]

“There’s a family member behind every one of those numbers,” Dr. Stephen J. Nelson, the chairman of the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, said on Thursday, before the death toll had climbed to 1,600.

Dr. Nelson has pushed to make the full records public, including first and last names, without any state redactions [....]

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