Pennsylvania slashes COVID-19 death toll by 201

The Pennsylvania Department of Health slashed the state’s COVID-19 death toll on Thursday by 201, saying probable deaths it had previously included in the count were eliminated after further investigation.

State health officials had recently changed the way they count COVID-19 deaths - now including probable deaths along with confirmed deaths - which resulted in a doubling of the state’s death toll in just four days. A probable death is one in which a coroner or medical examiner listed COVID-19 as the cause or contributing cause, but the deceased was not tested for the virus.

Officials have said they are trying to reconcile data provided by hospitals, health care systems, county and municipal health departments and long-term care living facilities with the department’s own records. Some county coroners have accused the state Department of Health of botching the numbers.

<After opening up testing sites where 40 people show up I guess they been getting called on the numbers

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