ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County health leaders are trying to determine why COVID-19 data is sometimes delayed by as much as a month but right now, they don’t have an exact explanation for the lag.Alvina Chu spoke on behalf of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County during a news conference Thursday and said that of the 27 deaths reported between Monday and now, a number of them in the “single digits” occurred in July.
The rest of the patients died between August and September.“So ‘I don’t exactly know’ is the answer (as to why death data is delayed), but we do try to work hard to confirm and investigate the deaths, and so we are working to figure out why,” Chu said.[TRENDING: Central Florida Latina has world painted on her.