Colorado lowered the state's COVID-19 death toll by nearly 300 on Friday. Then on Sunday, the governor of Colorado questioned the way the Centers for Disease Control and
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced on Friday that the state would significantly change the way it counts COVID-19 deaths. As a result of the new policy, Colorado lowered the state's coronavirus deaths from 1,150 to 878.
"Beginning May 15, the department began reporting the number of deaths in two ways: The number of deaths among people with COVID-19. This represents the total number of deaths reported among people who have COVID-19, but COVID-19 may not have been the cause of death listed on the death certificate," the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said on its website.
The second way that the CDPHE will track deaths is: "The number of deaths among people who died from COVID-19. This represents the total number of people whose death was attributed to COVID-19 as indicated on a death certificate."
Colorado gov pushes back against CDC's coronavirus death counts after state lowers death toll by nearly 300
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced on Friday that the state would significantly change the way it counts COVID-19 deaths. As a result of the new policy, Colorado lowered the state's coronavirus deaths from 1,150 to 878.
"Beginning May 15, the department began reporting the number of deaths in two ways: The number of deaths among people with COVID-19. This represents the total number of deaths reported among people who have COVID-19, but COVID-19 may not have been the cause of death listed on the death certificate," the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said on its website.
The second way that the CDPHE will track deaths is: "The number of deaths among people who died from COVID-19. This represents the total number of people whose death was attributed to COVID-19 as indicated on a death certificate."
Colorado gov pushes back against CDC's coronavirus death counts after state lowers death toll by nearly 300