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NYC Corona Casualties Suddenly Soar Past 10,000 Citing ’Probable’ Deaths

NYC Corona Casualties Suddenly Soar Past 10,000 Citing ’Probable’ Deaths
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By Staff, Agencies

Coronavirus deaths in New York City have spiked by more than 3,700 after officials tacked on a group of victims merely suspected of having the virus. The city joins a growing list of sites counting “probable” cases as infected.

The additional deaths, 3,778, to be exact, include people who are “presumed to have been infected because of their symptoms and medical history,” according to two sources cited by the New York Times, which reported the deaths on Tuesday.

These “probables” bring the total number of casualties for New York City to 10,367 and raise the United States’ total death toll by a whopping 17 percent. Over 26,000 people are now considered to have died with the coronavirus in the US, according to the Times.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially declined to include the “probables” as coronavirus deaths but reportedly changed his mind after a weekend briefing, the sources said, adding that most of the presumed deaths took place in hospitals.

While New York has tested more people per capita for coronavirus than anywhere else in the US, it joins several other sites – city health commissioner Oxiris Barbot named Connecticut, Ohio, Maryland, and Delaware – that began reporting “probable” cases as coronavirus deaths this week. Other sites, including California and Seattle, have limited their casualty counts to those that can be confirmed by testing.

Relatively, disagreements between local and regional health authorities over the number of coronavirus deaths have also been blamed on the use of “different data systems.”

New York City authorities have complained that the state has dragged its feet sharing data from hospitals and nursing homes.

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