Trump Claims NYC Inflating Its Coronavirus Death Toll; Death Totals Compiled by CDC Will Now Include ‘Probable’ Cases
By Fox News. President Trump on Wednesday claimed that New York City was inflating its COVID-19 death toll after health officials released new data that added 3,700 victims who were believed to have had the virus’ symptoms but were never tested.
The latest figures, released Tuesday by NYC’s Health Department, rose the death toll to more than 10,000, making the city one of the major epicenters of the pandemic.
“I see this morning where New York added 3,000 [sic] deaths because they died. Rather than [a] heart attack, they say heart attack caused by this,” he said during the daily briefing of the Coronavirus Task Force, referring to COVID-19.
The additional victims raised the death toll to 10,000 in New York City, and more than 28,000 in total in the U.S. Trump suggested that the city was accounting for the 3,700 additional deaths “just in case” the victims had the coronavirus.
“If you look at it, that is it. Everything we have is documented and reported great. What they are doing is just in case — that is OK. We have more cases because we do more reporting.” (Read more from “Trump Claims NYC Inflating Its Coronavirus Death Toll” HERE)
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U.S. Coronavirus Death Totals Compiled by CDC Will Now Include ‘Probable’ Cases
By CNN. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now counting “probable” cases of coronavirus among its tabulations, according to the agency’s website.
The inclusion of such cases will add thousands to the total number of patients and deaths by including people who didn’t have a positive test but showed signs of having the virus.
It comes after the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists suggested the CDC and state health departments add probable cases.
Previously, the CDC was only counting cases that had been confirmed by them or cases where the agency had yet to confirm a test done by a local or private entity. (Read more from “U.S. Coronavirus Death Totals Compiled by CDC Will Now Include ‘Probable’ Cases” HERE)
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