Michigan admits underreporting 200K+ COVID-19 cases, many during worst wave
bridgemi ^ | 11/12/2024 | Mike Wilkinson
Posted on 11/14/2024 9:36:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Michigan underreported tens of thousands of new weekly infections during the worst wave of the COVID-19, an error that state officials didn’t correct until last month.
The Michigan Department of Health and Humans Services in October revised the onset date of roughly 200,000 COVID-19 infections and acknowledged to Bridge Michigan that, prior to those changes, the state had misreported the timing of roughly 6% of the 3.3 million cases since the pandemic began in March 2020.
The state blamed the problem on a computer error, saying that as people got COVID-19 for a second or third time, some new infections were considered a “reinfection” and were assigned to the date of that person’s earlier illness.
That led to lower reported case counts including during the massive omicron wave, with the state reporting up to 30% fewer infections each week than which were actually occurring.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: cases; covid19; michigan; underreporting
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OH NOES!
To: ChicagoConservative27
So, they didn’t exaggerate/propagandize enough? Got it.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 9:39:05 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
3 posted on 11/14/2024 9:39:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I seriously doubt the validity of this report or the claim.
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