Misleading viral claim on government tracking COVID-19 deaths debunked
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The tweet also racked up concerned replies, including one that said, "The US government doesn't want us to know how many of us are dying," which recieved more than 1,500 likes.Another popular reply said: "'If you don't test, there's fewer cases' has morphed into the even more horrible monstrosity of 'if you don't report deaths, they're not happening.'"Epidemiologists and data journalists on Twitter chimed in to debunk the claim that the US was no longer tracking deaths."Seriously this is so misleading, please stop spreading it," Erin Kissane, who cofounded The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project, said in a tweet.Kissane said the daily death counts most people are following, like the one maintained by The New York Times, do not rely on or use data from HHS.
As said here by Kelsey Vlamis