News Outlet Corrects Story Claiming Texas COVID-19 Death Rate Highest Since March 2020

A walkway leading to medical tents is shown outside of the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 10, 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Axios on Monday corrected a story that claimed the COVID-19 death rate in Texas reached a high not seen since March 2020.

Axios claimed that “the state’s seven-day coronavirus death rate reached its highest levels since March 2020.”