State and County Data Told Different Stories About Total Deaths from COVID-19
There was always a small difference between what we heard from the state and the county. But when October came, that difference became a gulf. Let's talk about why.
By
Steven Monacelli
Published in
FrontBurner
April 29, 2021
12:35 pm
Each weekday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins reports a number of local deaths attributed to COVID-19. It’s a grim reminder of the toll the pandemic continues to take on our community.
But in terms of understanding the current state of the virus, it’s an unclear data point that isn’t a snapshot so much as it is an accumulation of the prior days and sometimes weeks. Like so much in this pandemic, it’s confusing, a blurry image of the severity of the coronavirus in the county that doesn’t always match the counts from the Texas Department of State Health Services.