Reporting Changes For Covid-19 Deaths In Texas, Florida May Give Ammunition To ‘Hoax’ Believers

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Continuing changes to the inexact science of determining what counts as a Covid-19 death has the potential to add to the arguments of those who say the numbers are overblown in part to hurt President Trump

Texas and Florida —two Covid-19 hotspots — have amended their death counts due to a change in reporting methods and a media investigation, potentially adding fuel to arguments that the coronavirus statistics have been overblown to make President Trump look bad.

The department previously had been relying on fatalities publicly reported by local and regional health officials, according to the so as of early Tuesday, the death certificate data had identified 5,713 Covid-19 fatalities among Texas residents, including 44 newly reported deaths Monday, compared with 5,038 Covid-19 deaths reported as of Sunday under the previous reporting method.found “eight erroneous deaths,” that were removed from the county’s Covid-19 death toll.

Determining what counts as a Covid-19 death has always been challenging because many patients, especially people of color, suffer from multiple ailments and also may be released from hospital care only to die shortly afterwards at home, a question that arose across the pond when Great Britain recently ordered a review of death counts after it was determined that health authorities were “counting people who died long after recovering,” according to medicalxpress.com and theIn the U.S.

Last week, 31% of Americans said they believe the number of Americans dying is lower than the number being reported, up from 23% who answered the same question in May, with the increase driven largely by Republicans, nearly 60% of whom said the death count is overinflated, up from 40% in May, according to anThat’s the number of U.S. coronavirus cases listed Tuesday by Johns Hopkins, which put the U.S. death toll at 148,295.Some Americans who push back as U.S.

 

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Newsflash. Pandemics are global. Hence not making it up for some stupid political race.

Maybe if there wasn't some truth to it, it wouldn't be a problem Not the only story of it's kind:

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