There’s a new theory about Florida, coronavirus and pneumonia deaths. Read this first.

There’s a new theory about Florida, coronavirus and pneumonia deaths. Read this first.

In an analysis he ran for the Times using publicly available data, Andrew Noymer, a professor who studies population health and disease prevention at the University of California Irvine, did not find major discrepancies between pneumonia and influenza deaths in early 2020 compared to recent years. He found about 1,485 such deaths in 2020, which was within a few hundred of the same period in any year since 2015.