COVID Death Inflation Due 2 Under Not Over Reporting?

So, the states are finding MORE rather than FEWER COVID-19 deaths thanks to glitches in reporting protocols? That’s what the WSJ article is saying about a troubling underreporting that seems to have infected health care record-keepers everywhere.

“Nobody likes surprises,” the WSJ noted, yet as “COVID-19 deaths head lower, raising hopes that the U.S. is turning a corner as vaccinations continue, states around the country are steadily finding previously unreported deaths that are causing data confusion.”

How can this be? Part of the problem apparently is that “backlogs can temporarily raise daily death tolls.” Ok. But, the nation’s obsession with “real time reporting” also is playing a role. Instead of waiting for medical experts like treating physicians to issue a detailed death certificate (which can take weeks), the progressive brains like today’s closely-watched data trackers at John Hopkins University are telling policy wonks to use their “dashboards.” And, they have been. At first, the suspicion was that non-COVID reasons were inflating the daily death tolls. Now, we’re told the opposite has been happening on a far larger scale? By how much? In February alone, Ohio announced more than 4,000 additional COVID deaths after reconciling its data. Ouch.

Davd Soul