COVID-19 Death Toll in California County Drops 22 Percent After Revision

A boy receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Holon, Israel on June 21, 2021. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

Health officials in Santa Clara County, California, announced a drop in the county’s COVID-19 death toll after it refined its data-reporting systems.

After using a new approach to review COVID-19-related fatalities, county officials said the death toll from the virus dropped 22 percent from 2,201 to 1,696 deaths.