Surely this isn't the only place this occurred. Anyone who has functioning brain material knows this went on..... everywhere
A California county is revising its COVID-19 death total after a review found that a quarter of the deaths that were attributed to COVID-19 were not caused by the disease.
At issue was the definition the county was using to count COVID-19 deaths, requiring only that a patient tested positive for the virus when they died, even if they did not die as a direct result of the virus. In one such case, a person who tested positive for COVID-19 and died in a car crash was recorded as a COVID-19 death.
The revised count now shows the county has recorded 1,223 COVID-19 deaths, down from 1,634. The 411 cases removed from the list is a 25% reduction in overall virus deaths for the county.
“We knew any change like this would have raised some eyebrows,” said Alameda County’s Health Officer Nicholas Moss. “Nothing about this changes our policy decisions now or during the height of the pandemic.”