I’m in Florida. I think the counts are highly suspect. I think they must be counting someone who was never hospitalized but at some point at a positive test and later died of non-related cause such as stroke and used the test to mark it as a Covid death.
Yes, they are and they also tally death stats from previous days. Deaths reported today may have happened anywhere from weeks to months ago if it was not clear as to cause of death. In other words, these deaths did not happen yesterday, but were recorded yesterday.
Doing so would violate CDC guidelines for death certificates (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf) and probably amount to a criminal act for falsifying government documents.
The CDC guidelines directly state that the underlying cause of death must be established, which is “the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death”. It further states that the circumstances around this cause of death must be “compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty”.
Are there instances where somebody makes a mistake or does something wrong? Of course; we’re talking about government employees after all. But who is this fool who’s risking prison time and a loss of license to forge medical records and official government documents?