Who is they?
Tennessee and Alabama did not report. The death count is higher than this number, and this number is higher than same day last week.
Reported here:
https://twitter.com/andre__damon/status/1482069977826009092?s=21
“US Government to end daily COVID death reporting
A document issued issued Jan 6 by the US Health and Human Services tells hospitals they are no longer required to report daily COVID-19 deaths to the federal government starting Feb 2.”
“The HHS document calling on hospitals to end COVID-19 death reporting was published the same day as former Biden advisors published an article in
@JAMA_current
calling for the US government to “retire” the reporting of deaths from #COVID19 “
TN and AL often don't report. Nothing new at all.
What would be new is you pointing out that when these states do report, they are actually reporting totals that include the days that they didn't report.