Age stratification: The right-hand column here shows the CDC's "best estimate" of IFR (infection fatality rate) and the substantial decrease for populations under 65:
Florida's actual case fatality rate (should be significantly higher than IFR because of undetected infections) is 9.5% for 65+, 0.89% for 45-64, 0.11% for 25-44, and 0.02% for 15-24, and 0.003% for 0-14.
.@justin_hart put this together last summer: Roughly 10x increase in risk for every 20-year age increase.
1/ @NewsGuardRating has come after Alachua Chronicle, claiming we publish "misinformation." They completely ignored the vast quantity of original reporting on the site (I cover nearly every city and county commission meeting in detail, plus some school board meetings,...
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various crime stories, and other investigative work) and instead highlighted 2 letters to the editor, 2 submitted opinion pieces (one by an M.D.), and a factual news story.
3/ This is clearly marked as a letter to the editor. Here's what Newsguard said:
"In a move that has already proven more liberating than declaring an end to mask mandates and limited capacity indoor dining, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis single-handedly defeated the virus this month with the simple act of ending Florida’s daily reporting of virus statistics"
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'Shifting our collective attention away from that daily drip of bad news has the effect of ending our collective public “analysis paralysis,” as if we’re all suddenly waking from a coronavirus coma and walking out into the sunshine for the first time in over a year.'
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My article on the ruling yesterday by the Florida 1st DCA that Alachua County's mask mandate is "presumptively unconstitutional" - kudos to attorney Jeff Childers @jchilders98 for the big win!
Governmental mask mandates in the 32 counties in the First District of Florida must now be presumed to be unconstitutional after yesterday’s ruling by the First District Court of Appeals (1st DCA) on a lawsuit brought by business owner Justin Green against Alachua County.
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Judge Tanenbaum began by describing the mask mandate in Alachua County, using terms like “fiats,” “diktats,” and “whispering informants”... Tanenbaum even included a picture of Alachua County’s mandated sign in the order.