Emmy-Winning Performance? New York's Reported COVID Deaths Don't Match CDC Numbershttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/brucecarroll/2021/02/12/emmy-winning-performance-new-yorks-reported-covid-deaths-dont-match-cdc-numbers-n1425202Twitter user @PoliticalMath last night noted a further problem with New York’s poor record of disclosing accurate information. New York State’s reported COVID deaths don’t match up with the Center for Disease Control’s reported deaths in the state.
PoliMath
@politicalmath
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Feb 11, 2021
I know everyone is talking about New York hiding deaths from the federal government at the beginning of this crisis, but I really want to talk about why NY's self-reported numbers *even today* are wildly out of sync w/ the CDC's count
PoliMath
@politicalmath
As of 2 days ago, there are 15 states whose self-reported COVID deaths don't exactly match the CDC's number for them
For most of these states, you can chalk this up to different websites updating at different times.
Nebraska: 8 death difference
Oklahoma: 40
New York: 8,477
4:57 PM · Feb 11, 2021
PoliMath
@politicalmath
No other state is even close to this kind of discrepancy. This is 17X higher than the next biggest discrepancy, which is Florida
But Florida has the opposite issue. Florida's state health department count is counting *more* COVID deaths than the CDC by 478
5:00 PM · Feb 11, 2021
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The CDC website bears out his story; the CDC’s total NY COVID count is 45,106 deaths, while the NY State Dept. of Health lists their COVID deaths at 36,882. These figures are both updated as of 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 12.
The "official" NY deaths count is 18.79% lower than the CDC's. As accountants might say, that's a material difference!
