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Massachusetts Reports 'Significant Overcount' of Covid Deaths

• dekhn 5y ago
  The US stats were pretty messed up, it will be clear in 5-10 years that the US didn't do significantly worse than similar countries, they just counted differently.
• WalterGR 5y ago
  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.
  • LittleMoveBig 5y ago
    If my math is correct, it's from 27,000 to 23,000?
    • WalterGR 5y ago
      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.”