New coronavirus numbers released by Florida show the case fatality rate for people under the age of 24 stands at 0%.
“New Florida presentation of age strat in today’s daily report,” political analyst Phil Kerpen tweeted Thursday, along with a link to a graph showing a breakdown of coronavirus deaths in Florida by age group.
New Florida presentation of age strat in today’s daily report.https://t.co/xGtwHJgJAJ pic.twitter.com/FVEOXlHGIX
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 13, 2020
The case fatality rate increases as age groups get older and shows a case fatality rate of 10.9% for people ages 75-84 and 21.3% for people ages 85 and up.
The chart also shows that the vast majority of coronavirus deaths happened to people over 65 years old.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has been widely criticized by mainstream news outlets and Democrats across the country for his handling of the coronavirus as the number of cases in his state sits at roughly 551,000.
Supporters of DeSantis have pointed out that Florida shares a near-identical number of per capita infections with New York, whose Democratic governor has been widely praised for his coronavirus response, but Florida has experienced five times less per capita deaths.
“FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican, tweeted earlier this month. “Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?”
FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 3, 2020
Questions about the accuracy of Florida’s coronavirus data have been brought up over the past few months. An investigation by CBS 12 News studied medical examiner reports and found examples of people who were listed as coronavirus deaths when they actually died from other causes.
An investigation in July discovered possible errors in the state’s positivity test reporting and suggested the actual positivity rate was much lower than what the state published.
