Washington State’s COVID-19 Death Count Is Inflated: Death Certificate Analysis

Washington State’s COVID-19 Death Count Is Inflated: Death Certificate Analysis
Ambulance staff prepare to transport a patient from the Life Care Center nursing home where some patients died from COVID-19, in Kirkland, Wash., on March 5, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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A death certificate analysis shows that the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Washington state remains inflated, according to a new investigation.

The Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank, published research in May claiming the COVID-19 death total from the state’s Department of Health was inflated by as much as 13 percent by counting every person who tested positive for the disease, even if the death wasn’t caused by it.
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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