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"The Bee’s analysis of more than 25k deaths reported to the state through Dec found there are discrepancies among CA’s 58 counties in reporting of what’s known as “comorbidities” — the underlying medical conditions that contributed to a person’s poor health or death."

— 2ndfor1st (@2ndfor1st) April 12, 2022

"San Diego, Los Angeles, San Joaquín, Ventura and Santa Clara all showed more than 78% of deaths had documented underlying health problems. Fresno, Riverside, San Mateo and Alameda showed fewer than four-in-10 did."

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State officials said such “data entry error” in widespread disease tracking is “common.”

“These fields are not regularly evaluated for data quality,” an official wrote in an email to The Bee.

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“So the things that we think that are absolute and obvious and that the data can’t be corrupted in any way, like a death certificate, are absolutely fraught,” said Wurtz, the Minnesota researcher.

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“It’s really difficult to interview somebody who’s hospitalized and ventilated,” said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, an infectious disease physician and researcher at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Read more at: https://t.co/dh1jMW8EvZ

— 2ndfor1st (@2ndfor1st) April 12, 2022