<p>A county in California has revised their COVID-19 death total down 25% — by 411 cases — after initially counting all deaths with a positive COVID-19 test as a COVID-related death.</p>
<p>Alameda County has changed their total deaths caused by the novel coronavirus from 1,634 to 1,223, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/alameda-county/">according</a> to the Los Angeles Times.</p>
<p>&#8220;County officials decided to revise the numbers to align with the California Department of Public Health&#8217;s guidance on how to classify deaths,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/california-county-cuts-covid-death-toll">noted</a> Sunday. &#8220;The county previously included deaths of anyone infected with the virus, regardless of whether COVID-19 was a direct or contributing cause of death.&#8221;</p>
<p>“There are definitely people who died from reasons that were clearly not caused by COVID,” said Alameda County Public Health Department spokeswoman Neetu Balram, <a href="https://oaklandside.org/2021/06/04/alameda-countys-new-covid-death-toll-is-25-lower-than-thought/">according</a> to The Oaklandside.</p>
<p>Balram told The Oaklandside that 411 cases were dropped from the total &#8220;after reviewing codes entered by county coroners into CalREDIE, the state’s database for disease reporting and surveillance.&#8221;</p>
<p>The spokeswoman explained that the revision was prompted by a discrepancy in guidance between the county and the state. The Oaklandside reported:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The county’s original method was to attribute a death to COVID-19 if the coroner or medical provider (like a hospital) listed someone as being positive for the coronavirus at the time of their death. </em></p>
<p><em>Balram said the state’s definition was different: A death can only be attributed to COVID-19 if the coroner or medical provider can show that the person died “as a direct result of COVID-19, with COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death, or in whom death caused by COVID-19 could not be ruled out.” The state came up with this definition late last year in the middle of the pandemic, after Alameda County was already using its method. </em></p></blockquote>
<p>“Obviously our definition was broader than the state’s,” Balram said.</p>
<p>“When the state implemented these guidelines, Alameda County became aware of the conflicting definitions and made a plan to conduct the update when cases and deaths stabilized,” the Alameda County Public Health Department explained in a <a href="https://oaklandside.org/2021/06/04/alameda-countys-new-covid-death-toll-is-25-lower-than-thought/">statement</a>.</p>
<p>Alameda County’s health officer Nicholas Moss emphasized that the county is committed to giving locals accurate coronavirus information.</p>
<p>“We knew any change like this would have raised some eyebrows,” Moss said. “Nothing about this changes our policy decisions now or during the height of the pandemic.”</p>
<p>Infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja was critical of the 411-case drop, saying the 25% revision “seems high.”</p>
<p>As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-says-only-6-of-covid-deaths-cited-covid-alone-heres-what-that-means">The Daily Wire</a> in September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3-wrg3tTKK5-9tOHPGAHWFVO3DfslkJ0KsDEPQpWmPbKtp6EsoVV2Qs1Q">update</a> on the data regarding U.S. deaths linked to COVID. The report included a section on “comorbidities” and stated that of all the deaths attributed to COVID, a mere 6% of those deaths had COVID alone cited as the cause, noting, “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”</p>
<p>Axios added context to the statistic in its own “<a href="https://www.axios.com/cdc-covid-deaths-contributing-health-conditions-3315196c-986f-4ae3-ba35-2075fd64bce1.html">reality check</a>&#8220;: &#8220;While the cause of death listed as solely from the coronavirus occurred in <a class="gtm-content-click" href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-muRM3tB3uBdbTrmKwH1NdaBx6PpZo2kxotNwkUXlnbZXCwSRP2OmqsI#Comorbidities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-link-text="6% of cases" data-vars-click-url="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR2-muRM3tB3uBdbTrmKwH1NdaBx6PpZo2kxotNwkUXlnbZXCwSRP2OmqsI#Comorbidities" data-vars-content-id="3315196c-986f-4ae3-ba35-2075fd64bce1" data-vars-headline="CDC report on COVID deaths underlines virus' danger" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link">6% of cases</a> in the U.S. from Feb. 1 to Aug. 22, this doesn’t mean that the virus was not a contributing factor or, indeed, the leading cause in the other 94%,” the outlet said. “The U.S. virus death toll would be much lower if this were the case.&#8221;</p>
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