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Florida curtails reporting of coronavirus death numbers by county medical examiners Yahoo News DAVID KNOWLES May 1st 2020 3:12PM Florida health officials have halted the publication of up-to-the-minute death statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic that have, by law, been compiled by medical examiners in the state. The death count compiled by the Medical Examiners Commission was often found to be higher than the figures provided by Florida’s Department of Health, the Tampa Bay Times reported, prompting a review of the data and a suspension of its publication. State officials have not specified what they find objectionable about the medical examiners’ count, nor when they might allow it to be made public again, the Times said. According to the state Department of Health, 34,728 people have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and 1,337 people have died from it, as of Friday morning. Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that state officials informed him that they would remove the cause of death and a description of each case from statistics published by the examiners. “This is no different than any other public record we deal with,” Nelson said. “It’s paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that the state would begin lifting coronavirus restrictions for some businesses everywhere but Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, which have been particularly hard-hit by the virus. “These counties have seen the lion’s share of the state’s epidemic,” DeSantis said Wednesday, “but they are trending in a positive direction.” The day before DeSantis’s order, Florida reported 83 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number to date. On Friday, the state reported another 47 deaths and 1,038 new cases of COVID-19. Fewer than 2 percent of Florida’s 21.5 million residents have been tested for the virus, the Miami Herald reported on Friday. Of residents who have been tested, 9 percent have come back positive for the virus, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Florida curtails reporting of coronavirus death numbers by county medical examiners Yahoo News DAVID KNOWLES May 1st 2020 3:12PM Florida health officials have halted the publication of up-to-the-minute death statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic that have, by law, been compiled by medical examiners in the state. The death count compiled by the Medical Examiners Commission was often found to be higher than the figures provided by Florida’s Department of Health, the Tampa Bay Times reported, prompting a review of the data and a suspension of its publication. State officials have not specified what they find objectionable about the medical examiners’ count, nor when they might allow it to be made public again, the Times said. According to the state Department of Health, 34,728 people have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and 1,337 people have died from it, as of Friday morning. Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that state officials informed him that they would remove the cause of death and a description of each case from statistics published by the examiners. “This is no different than any other public record we deal with,” Nelson said. “It’s paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that the state would begin lifting coronavirus restrictions for some businesses everywhere but Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, which have been particularly hard-hit by the virus. “These counties have seen the lion’s share of the state’s epidemic,” DeSantis said Wednesday, “but they are trending in a positive direction.” The day before DeSantis’s order, Florida reported 83 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number to date. On Friday, the state reported another 47 deaths and 1,038 new cases of COVID-19. Fewer than 2 percent of Florida’s 21.5 million residents have been tested for the virus, the Miami Herald reported on Friday. Of residents who have been tested, 9 percent have come back positive for the virus, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Magnificent ass & torso. But the pic with blond hair... :eek::eek:

Magnificent ass & torso. But the pic with blond hair... :eek::eek:

Ils ont change ma Chips Ahoy, ma Ils ont change ma Chips Ahoy ??? Not my stomach.

Ils ont change ma Chips Ahoy, ma Ils ont change ma Chips Ahoy ??? Not my stomach.

That song always bored me to tears. Preferred Ship to Shore and Don't Pay The Ferryman.

That song always bored me to tears. Preferred Ship to Shore and Don't Pay The Ferryman.

Don't forget his 9/11 themed cleats: Many of the Mets were seen taking the field on Wednesday night against the D-backs wearing custom cleats that honored those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, including the first responders. All of this was orchestrated by the Mets' rookie, who came up with the idea for the team to honor 9/11 victims on the tragedy's 18th anniversary. Though he initially wanted to create custom hats, he pivoted to cleats to avoid what he called "red tape" from Major League Baseball. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/see-it-pete-alonso-orders-mets-custom-cleats-honoring-911-victims/310677192

Don't forget his 9/11 themed cleats: Many of the Mets were seen taking the field on Wednesday night against the D-backs wearing custom cleats that honored those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, including the first responders. All of this was orchestrated by the Mets' rookie, who came up with the idea for the team to honor 9/11 victims on the tragedy's 18th anniversary. Though he initially wanted to create custom hats, he pivoted to cleats to avoid what he called "red tape" from Major League Baseball. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/see-it-pete-alonso-orders-mets-custom-cleats-honoring-911-victims/310677192

I've settled on Big Whoop.

I've settled on Big Whoop.

I'm sensing a trend here. This song doesn't make me horny, but the memory of it being used during the opening credits of GREASE MONKEYS as Lee Marlin, Kip Noll, & Nick Rodgers walked in tight jeans does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggBX1xMfxv4

Antetokounmpo hasn't been shy in his pursuit of greatness. In fact, during Milwaukee's Nov. 18 win at Chicago, with Jordan's No. 23 and Scottie Pippen's 33 dangling from the rafters of the United Center, he told ESPN: "I definitely want to be one of the best players to ever play. At age 25, Antetokounmpo is entering his prime and seemingly in the running to win a second straight MVP award. Milwaukee GM Jon Horst is keeping that in mind while studying Jordan's career. Jordan didn't win his first title until age 28, during the 1990-91 campaign. Antetokounmpo wasn't even born until Dec. 6, 1994. "You look at championship teams, and they have an average age of like close to 30, and then they have an average age of like 26, 27, 28 when they get to a conference finals," Horst said. "You have guys like Michael Jordan, who I don't think actually ended up getting to the NBA Finals until he was [28] years old. So I think for our guys, for our organization and for fans in general just to watch kind of the evolution of a championship organization -- not just a single championship year or a team that had a great run, but a team that figures out how to become great and then sustains it over a long period of time and does some really special things. I think it's really an interesting story for people to watch." The Bucks currently hold an NBA-best 53-12 record. Through 65 games of Jordan's 1997-98 championship team, the Bulls were 48-17. The Bucks have won a league-high 36 games by double figures and 19 games by at least 20. Despite playing only 65 games, that's already more games than the Bulls won by double figures (34) or 20-plus points (10).

It’s been quite a week for live news blunders. On Thursday, Tampa Bay meteorologist Paul Dellegatto wasinterrupted mid-weather broadcast by his dog, who didn’t seem very concerned about the humidity levels across Southern Florida. Despite Dellegatto’s best efforts, he couldn’t get his golden retriever to calm down, and for the next minute and a half, he was forced to analyze the radar maps with a large puppy on his lap. More dog quarantine content, please! Yesterday, FOX 13 chief meteorologist Paul Dellegato experienced some dog-induced technical difficulties in the middle of his at-home broadcast when Brody, his golden retriever, ran into his computer. “The maps aren’t going to move because he just whacked the computer with his head,” said the weatherman, as he attempted to explain the change in dew point across Florida. “So, let me just verbalize the forecast,” said Dellegato. Turning to Brody, he added, “That wasn’t very smart.” The Tampa Bay weatherman attempted to run through the weekly forecast, but the puppy just wasn’t interested, and he repeatedly yawned as his owner worked through the daily highs and lows. “Didn’t mean to keep you up,” said Dellegato, after one particularly dramatic dog yawn. “Next time, Buddy. We’re going to eat after this.” When Dellegato moved Brody off his lap, the dog discovered something even more exciting: the man behind the camera. After a few Brody-free seconds, the outline of his head suddenly popped up from the bottom of the screen. “Oh, boy,” said Dellegato. “He’s jumping up looking for Craig outside the window.” Dellegato explained that Craig is a producer standing on the porch holding “a blanket up so that the reflection” doesn’t mess up the shot. “And now he can’t see Craig so he’s going crazy trying to find Craig behind the blanket,” he said. “Don’t take this the wrong way, Paul, but this is amazing and great. I love it,” said one of Dellegato’s co-anchors. “We don’t need to see that forecast map. We’ll just look at Brody.” Hard agree.

God bless them. I'm sure their families are proud of them, but I wonder if those families really wanted them to come here. I wouldn't have. A 66 year old paramedic from Aurora, Colorado contracted the virus & died. The city will make a memorial to him. Now, a nurse who flew up from Florida to pitch in at New York City’s overwhelmed hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic was thanked by Gotham’s worst — when she was mugged in a practically abandoned Times Square. Stacy Coco and her friend, a fellow Florida nurse, had just gotten off their 12-hour overnight shift at Jacobi Medical Center and an hour-long commute on the subway Sunday morning when they were walking through the famed tourist spot. It was Coco’s first time in the Big Apple. The pair had flown up a week earlier for an eight-week contract with the city and were put up in the Millennium Hotel. “We heard nurses were getting sick and some were dying. We thought if we came up here, we could help. I know it sounds corny … but when you have that in your heart, that’s what you want to do for people,” Coco said. It was around 8:30 a.m. She stood awestruck in front of the “Good Morning America” set in Times Square and stopped to snap a photo. But then, out of nowhere, a thug pushed Coco down and ran off with her cellphone. “I don’t even know where he came from,” Coco recalled. “It’s got pictures and voicemail of my mother on there that died a year ago, December 2018 … and that’s all I have of her.” Her friend, Kimberly Allen, wanted to chase after the thief. “She wanted to chase after the criminal but she didn’t want to get shot,” Coco said. A distraught Coco and her friend went to the nearby NYPD precinct house after tracking the iPhone — but were met by a rude cop, apparently unwilling to help. “We can’t put you in the back seat in the car and go find that phone, it’s a pandemic,” Coco recalled of the exchange. Yet that’s exactly what a police captain did when he overheard the nurse’s story. The supervisor ordered two NYPD officers to drive the nurses around the city for more than two hours to find the thief. “Every time we got close to it would move,” Coco said in frustration. “These two police officers gave us so much of their time,” she recalled, saying the two didn’t want to stop. She never found the thief. “I cried for two days and got a new phone,” she said. “When I called in to work that evening, all the person in the staffing could do is laugh, ‘I’m so sorry, you gotta keep everything close to you in New York,'” she remembered them saying. “This isn’t Florida,” Coco said jokingly.

I guess nobody's in a sad mood today.

Why, kind sir, you DO make me blush!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eonNhJVle_U

I know Prince was considered a musical genius, but there wasn't one song of his I liked even a little. Granted, I only knew what was played on the radio. And I absolutely LOATHED (This Is What It Smells Like) When Doves Fry. I always found Jim Carrey's schtick as entertaining as Prince's vocals. Ricky Gervais is smug and overbearing. Tracy Morgan must have a lot of dirt on a lot of people to have had the career he's had. Chris Rock can be a little funny and entertaining. very little.

I don't know whether to say Mazel Tov or Big Whoop. My emotions are all over the place tonight.

Yeah, I know it's about pot... It would be such a happy tune if they replaced one of the names with Donald: Great song to ponder suicide to: Karen's favorite Carpenters song:

I remember at school the day after he died one of my classmates didn't know who he was: