A Los Angeles County Public Health official revealed on Wednesday that 806 deaths related to Covid-19 went unrecorded due to an overwhelming volume of the public death report forms used to track causes of death.“There were a number of deaths not reported through the standard public death report forms, but later identified,” said county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.
She said the daily data since December would be backdated to reflect the actual number of deaths on each day.For a sense of perspective, on Jan.
10 Ferrer said the county’s seven-day average of daily deaths was 179. That period corresponds with the winter wave’s peak in terms of lives lost.
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