While Florida listed a man in his 20s as one of the state’s COVID-19 victims, a county health official told WOFL-TV that the man died in a motorcycle accident.
What are the details?
The station was investigating records showing two individuals in their 20s as victims of coronavirus and asked Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raúl Pino if any of the people had any underlying conditions.
Pino’s on-camera response to WOFL?
“The first one had none. He died in a motorcycle accident,” he said.
The station then asked Pino if the man’s data had been deleted.
“I don’t think so. I have to double check it,” Pino told WOFL. “We argued, we argued and we tried to argue with the state. Not by the numbers, I mean, they are one hundred; [doesn’t] make any difference if it’s 99. But … the fact that the individual … didn’t die of COVID-19, he died in [the] shock. But in reality it can be argued that it could have been COVID-19 that caused it to crash. So I don’t know the conclusion of that one. “
The station said in its report that there were still two people in their 20s on the Orange County coronavirus death list.
Is there a contradiction going on?
WOFL said the Florida Department of Health sent him a statement clarifying that a “COVID death” is determined if “COVID-19 appears as the immediate or underlying cause of death, or as one of the important conditions contributing to the death”. , if there is a confirmed COVID-19 infection from a laboratory test, and the cause of death does not meet the exclusion criteria, such as trauma, suicide, homicide, overdose, car accident, etc. ”
Pino added to the station that “the only thing I could tell people is the information I give them is the information we consume from the state, and we offer them … the best information we have.”
In addition, Pino told WOFL that the coroner must certify all COVID-19 deaths. The station said it contacted that office and had received no response.
Anything else?
WOFL in a separate report earlier this week noted that while the Florida Department of Health has said that “countless” coronavirus testing sites across the state have reported a near 100% positivity rate for COVID-19, the reality was very different in some cases.
For example, state data showed that Orlando Health, a local hospital, had a COVID-19 positivity rate of 98%, but when the station contacted the hospital, authorities said its positivity rate was only 9.4%. .
State reports also claimed that Orlando VA Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76%, but the hospital told WOFL that its positivity rate was only 6%.
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