One in 3 death certificates were wrong before coronavirus. It's about to get even worse.

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As the U.S. struggles to track coronavirus fatalities amid spotty testing, delayed lab results and inconsistent reporting standards, a more insidious problem could thwart its quest for an accurate death toll.

Up to 1 in 3 death certificates nationwide were already wrong before COVID-19, said Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics in an interview with the USA TODAY Network.

“I’m always worried about getting good data. I think this sort of thing can be an issue even in a pandemic,” Anderson said.

Experts say the inaccuracies are part and parcel of a patchwork, state-by-state system of medical examiners, coroners and doctors who have disparate medical backgrounds, and in some cases none at all.

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1. I'll pick "none at all," Alex for $200.

My aunt and uncle once lived in Texas where the coroner was the sheriff with no training whatsoever. Their son was killed by a gunshot to the back and the coroner ruled it a suicide.

They had to hire a private forensic Examiner to do an autopsy, which the sheriff never did, and he said it was clearly a homicide.

Turns out the shooter was the wealthy son of the sheriff's pal and major donor, and he knew that from the beginning. The sheriff resigned and no charges were ever filed. The shooter got some slap on the wrist sentence for manslaughter and he got out after just a few months.