Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday warned against being swayed by “stale” data from the Department of Health on a day that Miami-Dade County reported a massive jump in reported coronavirus cases.
He said a “data dump” from a new lab was responsible for the spike and that he was going to “fix” that with the department but did not elaborate on what that meant.
Miami-Dade reported 4,141 positive COVID-19 cases on Wednesday. Its previous highest recent daily tally was 3,576 on July 12 and the county had not reported more than 2,000 daily cases since Aug. 1.
“Was this a sudden surge in new infections? No. As it turns out it was a data dump from a new private lab that included results from as far back as June. The data was stale. It was not indicative of current trends much less a quote record day of fresh infections in Miami,” DeSantis said during an address about the pandemic from the state Capitol.