Texas State Health Department Corrects Death Toll After Mistakenly Attributing 225 Deaths to COVID-19

A man gets tested for the CCP virus at a testing center in Austin, Texas, on July 7, 2020. Sergio Flores/Getty Images

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that its system made an error calculating the number of deaths directly caused by COVID-19, according to a tweet sent out on July 30.

The error was discovered on Wednesday, and Texas DSHS indicated that the error incorrectly categorized 225 deaths as COVID-19 fatalities despite COVID-19 not being listed as a direct cause of death on the death certificate, according to the Tweet.