Discrepancies Arise In Local COVID Data

There’s differing data on the total number of deaths related to COVID in Sangamon County… with a fairly wide disparity in the numbers.
 
The county’s official numbers, reported daily on its website, puts the total number of local fatalities related to the virus at 378 as of Monday. But an analysis by Johns Hopkins University, reported by USA Today, puts Sangamon County’s COVID death toll at 392. A county spokesperson says he’s unsure where the Johns Hopkins numbers come from, and says they don’t match the data that the county gets from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
 
But IDPH is reporting one new Sangamon County death in the past week… while the county has not reported a new COVID fatality since April 22nd. The county says when people die of COVID in a Springfield hospital, their deaths are sometimes assigned to Sangamon… and then later corrected to link back to their home county.

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