Here we go again.
When they made the change less deaths will be reported currently. That will make the current number less than it would have under the old reporting. So change decline to less if that makes you happy. Once the new reporting catches up everything will be normal. At that point no one will care.
Here we go again? Dude, you're talking about FL fudging numbers with me. This has been my pet peeve for 17 months. What exactly is "here we go again?"
They aren't reporting the numbers any later than they already were. When a death certificate is issued, the death is announced. Previously, it was announced as, "We had X new deaths reported today." The media would spin that as if the deaths had all occurred that day, when in reality, most of those people had died 2-4 weeks earlier. Now, instead of saying how many deaths were added to the total that day, they are adding each death to the total for the day it occurred. Nothing actually changed. If you want the old number, take today's total deaths (from the start of the pandemic) and subtract yesterday's number from that, and you can still see how many deaths were reported today.