Sudden jump of new cases from 1,885 on August 31 to 7,569 on September 1, due to found data. [View all]
Quest Diagnostics has abruptly released months-old data that caused a sharp jump in Florida's total COVID-19 cases, and the governor is pissed. You can read about it on any of these news sites.
The question now is how this corrected data will be handled by The COVID Tracking Project. It seems to me that this most recent figure of 631,040 total cases is correct, but all of the total case figures for the last several months are deceptively low. The numbers and charts could easily be made to look reasonable by throwing out the "stale" data from Quest Diagnostics, but that would be falsifying reality. The honest way would be to revise all of the previous numbers, but that could be politically inconvenient for our Governor Ron DeathSentence.
I've been tracking the Florida data from the COVID Tracking Project, and it'll be interesting to see how this is handled.
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