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BumRushDaShow

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7. "Texas changed its method of reporting...deaths to include fatalities marked on death certificates"

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Wed Jul 29, 2020, 09:54 AM

Jul 2020

And states like mine (PA) were excoriated for reporting "probables" that were awaiting a final test and marking as such on a death certificate. And here TX was ignoring those tested and "confirmed" on death certificates.

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