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BREAKING: NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases (those without a confirmed test result).
It has pushed the death toll in NYC up by 57%.
Was 6,589 before this adjustment. Now stands at 10,367. This is a painful but necessary accounting.
It has pushed the death toll in NYC up by 57%.
Was 6,589 before this adjustment. Now stands at 10,367. This is a painful but necessary accounting.
The new data also indicates that since March 13th, there were on average another 248 deaths in NYC not in the count of confirmed or probable covid cases. This means that on average we lost another 100 more NYers over normal. They too, in a sense, are victims of this pandemic.
See good reporting on the new figures by @jdavidgoodman & @WRashbaum: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-deaths.html?referringSource=articleShare
NYC Health Dept. has made a dramatic change to how it is tracking coronavirus deaths, now includes those who did not have a confirmed test. This graph shows how significant this increase has become.
This data will be updated regularly, you can follow it here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
