Wisconsin reclassifies 1,000 COVID-19 deaths from 'unknown' setting to long-term care facilitieshttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wisconsin-reclassifies-1-000-past-covid-19-fatalitiesWisconsin health officials reclassified nearly 1,000 COVID-19 fatalities, tying them to long-term care facilities after previously reporting the deaths occurred in "unknown" housing settings.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services adjusted the data in the past two weeks and now reports 45% of COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care facilities after the state previously linked 26% to 30% of total virus fatalities to these Wisconsin facilities, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The early percentages ranked lower compared to neighboring states and have raised questions among Republicans in the state and health experts about the accuracy of Wisconsin's data on long-term care deaths.
According to Gov. Tony Evers's administration, the change in data reports is part of a typical process of updating state health data regarding coronavirus fatalities. Additionally, Wisconsin has a decentralized system collecting data from local health departments.
There is nothing ordinary or "typical" in an "update" of this magnitude so many months after the deaths! I don't know whether Evers forced Covid patients into nursing homes, but clearly state (and maybe some local) officials fudged the data, massively, to obscure or conceal something!
