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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.
by 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 agoIf my math is correct, it's from 27,000 to 23,000?
- WalterGR 5y agoWhoops, 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.”