Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid Deaths

Re:Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid De... by WalterGR on Sunday March 13, 2022 @03:40AM (#30658919)

The article doesn’t make this clear, strangely, but it looks like adopting this new standard will make the death count go from roughly 100,000 to 85,000.

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Re:Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid De... by LittleMoveBig on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:26AM (#30662035)

If my math is correct, it's from 27,000 to 23,000?

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Re:Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid De... by WalterGR on Sunday March 13, 2022 @09:42PM (#30667638)

Whoops, I misread. I was scanning quickly because the article is clearly trying to bury the number.

Here’s the proper quote:

“As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Massachusetts health officials had recorded 23,708 confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths since the outbreak first began, so that figure is likely to drop to around 20,000 on Monday.”

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