08-27-2021

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Fact Focus: Florida doctors did not walk off the job

A news conference held by doctors in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to urge the public to get vaccinated amid a statewide surge of COVID-19 was undermined online as false reports claimed the physicians had walked off the job.

How many Floridians really have died from COVID-19?

Are Floridians getting an accurate picture of who is dying from COVID-19 and when? Not likely. Florida in August changed its rules for determining whether someone died of COVID-19, moving that responsibility from public medical examiners to the doctors.